lituus

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English

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Latin lituus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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lituus (plural litui)

  1. A military trumpet.
    • 1786: Fig. 3. A Roman Lituus, or military trumpet, such as is mentioned by Horace in his first ode. — Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page vi.
  2. An augur's staff with a recurved top.
  3. (geometry) A curve with polar equation , where a is a constant.
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Further reading

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Etruscan or from Proto-Indo-European *(e)lAi- (to bend).[1] Compare English lith and German Glied (limb).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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lituus m (genitive lituī); second declension

  1. a military trumpet
  2. a curved staff

Declension

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Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lituus lituī
Genitive lituī lituōrum
Dative lituō lituīs
Accusative lituum lituōs
Ablative lituō lituīs
Vocative litue lituī

Derived terms

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References

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  • lituus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • lituus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • lituus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • lituus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • lituus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “ĕl-ĕq-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 308-309

Romanian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Latin lituus.

Noun

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lituus n (plural lituusuri)

  1. lituus

Declension

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References

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  • lituus in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN