locusta
English[edit]
Noun[edit]
locusta (plural locustae)
- (botany) The spikelet or flower cluster of grasses.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Gray to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for locusta in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin locusta, of uncertain origin. Doublet of the inherited Doublet of aragosta.
Noun[edit]
locusta f (plural locuste)
Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
The origin is uncertain, length of the first vowel varies. According to De Vaan, the only word similar in form and meaning is lacerta (“lizard; mackerel”) and “they could be cognate words in the language from which Latin borrowed these forms”. Pokorny connects lō̆custa and lacerta with Ancient Greek λάξ (láx) λάγδην (lágdēn, “with the foot”, adverb), λάκτις (láktis, “pestle”), λικερτίζειν (likertízein, “to jump, to dance”) and Old Norse leggr (“lower leg, bone”), Lombardic [Term?] (lagi, “thigh”), deriving all from Proto-Indo-European *lek- (“joint, member; to bend, to wind”), explaining lō̆custa as “equipped with joints”. This is considered unconvincing by De Vaan.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /loːˈkus.ta/, [ɫ̪oːˈkʊs̠.t̪a] or IPA(key): /loˈkus.ta/, [ɫ̪ɔˈkʊs̠.t̪a]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /loˈkus.ta/, [lɔˈkus.t̪a]
Noun[edit]
lō̆custa f (genitive lō̆custae); first declension
- locust, grasshopper
- 2015, Tuomo Pekkanen, Ingentes greges locustarum in Russia meridionali. [1], Nuntii Latini 7.8.2015:
- Ingentēs gregēs lō̆custārum regiōnem Stavropolis in Russiā merīdiōnālī invāsērunt.
- A giant swarm of locusts has invaded the Stavropolsky district in southern Russia.
- Ingentēs gregēs lō̆custārum regiōnem Stavropolis in Russiā merīdiōnālī invāsērunt.
- 2015, Tuomo Pekkanen, Ingentes greges locustarum in Russia meridionali. [1], Nuntii Latini 7.8.2015:
- crustacean, marine shellfish, lobster
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | lō̆custa | lō̆custae |
Genitive | lō̆custae | lō̆custārum |
Dative | lō̆custae | lō̆custīs |
Accusative | lō̆custam | lō̆custās |
Ablative | lō̆custā | lō̆custīs |
Vocative | lō̆custa | lō̆custae |
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: lacusta
- Italian: aragosta
- → Italian: locusta
- → Old French: locuste
- → Portuguese: locusta
- → Romanian: locustă
- → Old English: loppestre, lopustre, lopystre (possibly)
- English: lobster
- → Translingual: Locusta
References[edit]
- locusta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- locusta in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- locusta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- locusta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- locusta in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- locusta in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume II, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 673
- Ernout, Alfred; Meillet, Antoine (2001) , “locusta”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), with additions and corrections of André J., 4th edition, Paris: Klincksieck, page 365ab
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) , “locusta”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 347-348
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
locusta
- Alternative form of locuste
- English lemmas
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- English nouns with irregular plurals
- en:Botany
- Italian terms borrowed from Latin
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- it:Insects
- Latin terms with unknown etymologies
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- la:Arthropods
- la:Crustaceans
- la:Insects
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