riscus

Latin

Etymology

A borrowing, probably ultimately from Proto-Celtic *rūskos, cognate with Ancient Greek ῥίσκος (rhískos, “chest, trunk”). According to Beekes the change from the Celtic vowel is likely explained by the Ancient Greek word having been borrowed via Phrygian from Galatian.

Noun

riscus m (genitive riscī); second declension

1. box, chest, trunk
2. (Medieval Latin) window
   • 1712, Engelbert Kaempfer, Amoenitatēs Exoticae I.8.107:

     Aliquando sine impluvio exstructum, aedificii molem constituit compressam, paucis columnis nixam, luminis admittentem modicum per riscos affabre clat[h]ratos.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	riscus	riscī
Genitive	riscī	riscōrum
Dative	riscō	riscīs
Accusative	riscum	riscōs
Ablative	riscō	riscīs
Vocative	risce	riscī

References

• “riscus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “riscus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• riscus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• riscus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “riscus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• riscus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1288
• Steiner-Weber, Astrid (2012), “riscus”, in Glossar zu Engelbert Kaempfer