lorum

See also: -lorum

English

Noun

lorum (plural lorums)

1. (zoology) A set of sclerites covering the dorsal surface of the pedicel in some spiders.

Latin

Alternative forms

• lōrus (Late Latin)

Etymology

Likely cognate with Ancient Greek εὔληρα (eúlēra, “reins”), Old Armenian լար (lar, “rope, cord”). The strange suffixation of the Greek comparandum suggests a borrowing from some extinct substrate language, though the ē-ō ablaut in the Greek and Latin forms, respectively, suggest said substrate to be Indo-European. Alternatively, possibly from an earlier *vlōrum, from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn, wind, round”), the same root as of volvō (“to roll”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

lōrum n (genitive lōrī); second declension

1. thong (leather strap)

   Near-synonyms: ligula / lingula, āmentum, habēna

   1. (poetic) a thong of a sling

      Synonym: verber

      Coordinate term: nervus

      Holonym: funda

2. (in the plural) reins of a bridle

   Synonyms: habēna, (Medieval Latin) retina

   Coordinate term: frēnum

3. whip, lash, scourge

   Synonyms: habēna, verber, scutica, flagrum, flabellum, corium

4. the girdle of Venus
5. a slender vine-branch

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	lōrum	lōra
genitive	lōrī	lōrōrum
dative	lōrō	lōrīs
accusative	lōrum	lōra
ablative	lōrō	lōrīs
vocative	lōrum	lōra

Derived terms

• lōrāmentum
• lōrārius
• lōreus
• (unclear) lōrīca
• lōrīcō
• lōripēs

Descendants

• → Ancient Greek: λῶρος (lôros)
• Galician: loro
• Italian: loro
• Portuguese: loro

Further reading

• “lorum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lorum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "lorum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “lorum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.