helluo

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin helluo (“glutton, squanderer”).[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

helluo (plural helluos)

  1. (obsolete) A glutton, a gormandizer.

References[edit]

  1. ^ “helluo, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2008.

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From helluārī +‎ -ō (suffix forming masculine agent nouns, nicknames, and other designations);[1] helluārī is the present active infinitive of helluor (“to be a glutton, gormandize”), further etymology unknown.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

helluō m (genitive helluōnis); third declension

  1. glutton
    Synonyms: lurcō, cataphagās, comedō, edō, dēgulātor, gāneō, gluttō, gulō, gumia, mandō, mandūcō, phagō, polyphagus, catīllō
  2. squanderer

Declension[edit]

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative helluō helluōnēs
Genitive helluōnis helluōnum
Dative helluōnī helluōnibus
Accusative helluōnem helluōnēs
Ablative helluōne helluōnibus
Vocative helluō helluōnēs

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Compare “helluo, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2008.
  • “helluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • helluo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “helluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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