linteolum

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Old Latin *lintumder.?

Proto-Italic *lintom?

Latin linteus

Latin linteum

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -ulus

Latin -olum

Latin linteolum

From linteum + -olum (diminutive suffix).

Noun

linteolum n (genitive linteolī); second declension

1. small linen cloth

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	linteolum	linteola
genitive	linteolī	linteolōrum
dative	linteolō	linteolīs
accusative	linteolum	linteola
ablative	linteolō	linteolīs
vocative	linteolum	linteola

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: lantzoru, lenciou, lencioru, lentzolu, lentolu, lentzoru, lintzolu
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Dalmatian: lenzul
  • Italian: lenzuolo, lenzolo
  • Sicilian: linzolu
  • Venetan: linẑòl, linsol, linsiol, linçiol, lençiol, linsioło, nisioło, nisiol, ninsol
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: linzûl
  • Romansh: lenziel, lanziel, linzöl
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Emilian: linsōl (Modenese), linsôl (Mantovano), linzôl (Bolognese), linzöl (Spilambertese)
  • Piedmontese: linseul
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: linçuel
    • French: linceul
    • Walloon: linçoû
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitan: lençòl
  • Old Catalan: lençol
    • Catalan: llençol
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: lençoo
    • Galician: lenzó
    • Portuguese: lençol
  • Spanish: lenzuelo
• Borrowings:
  • → Romanian: lințoliu

References

• “linteolum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “linteolum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.