raucus

Latin

Etymology

From rāvis (“hoarseness”) +‎ -cus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈrau̯.kus/, [ˈräu̯kʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈrau̯.kus/, [ˈräːu̯kus]

Adjective

raucus (feminine rauca, neuter raucum); first/second-declension adjective

1. hoarse
2. harsh, rough, grating, husky (sound)
3. raucous

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	raucus	rauca	raucum		raucī	raucae	rauca
Genitive	raucī	raucae	raucī		raucōrum	raucārum	raucōrum
Dative	raucō		raucō		raucīs
Accusative	raucum	raucam	raucum		raucōs	raucās	rauca
Ablative	raucō	raucā	raucō		raucīs
Vocative	rauce	rauca	raucum		raucī	raucae	rauca

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: roco
  • Sicilian: ràucu
• Padanian:
  • Piedmontese: raucc, rauss, ròuss, rauc
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: roucho
  • Old French: ro
    • ⇒ French: enrouer
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: ronc (influenced by rhonchāre); rauc (Septentrional)
  • Occitan: rauc

    Gascon: arrauc, arròc

    Limousin: roche

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: rouco
    • Galician: rouco
    • Portuguese: rouco
  • Spanish: ronco (influenced by rhonchāre)
• Borrowings:
  • → English: raucous
  • → French: rauque
  • → Italian: rauco
  • → Spanish: rauco

References

• “raucus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “raucus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• raucus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.