gurgulio

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɡʊrˈɡʊ.li.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ɡurˈɡuː.li.o]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to swallow”).

Noun

gurguliō m (genitive gurguliōnis); third declension

1. windpipe, gullet

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	gurguliō	gurguliōnēs
genitive	gurguliōnis	gurguliōnum
dative	gurguliōnī	gurguliōnibus
accusative	gurguliōnem	gurguliōnēs
ablative	gurguliōne	gurguliōnibus
vocative	gurguliō	gurguliōnēs

Related terms

• gurges

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: gorgoglio, gorgoglione
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: gurgullón
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *gurguliāre
  • Italian: gorgogliare

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

gurguliō m (genitive gurguliōnis); third declension

1. alternative form of curculio

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	gurguliō	gurguliōnēs
genitive	gurguliōnis	gurguliōnum
dative	gurguliōnī	gurguliōnibus
accusative	gurguliōnem	gurguliōnēs
ablative	gurguliōne	gurguliōnibus
vocative	gurguliō	gurguliōnēs

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian:
    • Campidanese: crugulloni, urguggioni, grulloni, gruguzoi
    • Logudorese: iscutzone, isgurzone, orguzone, gulligione
    • Nuorese: gulligione, arguzone, arguggione, gurtizone
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: gorgoglio, gorgoglione
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: gurgullo
  • Portuguese: gorgulho
  • Spanish: gorgojo
• Borrowings:
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *gurgulā (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “gurgulio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gurgulio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "gurgulio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “gurgulio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.