ungula
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ungula (“claw, hoof”), from unguis (“nail, claw, hoof”).
Noun
ungula (plural ungulae)
- A hoof, claw, or talon.
- (geometry) A section of a cylinder, cone, or other solid of revolution, cut off by a plane oblique to the base; so called from its resemblance to the hoof of a horse.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “ungula”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Noun
ungula (plural ungulas)
Latin
Etymology
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(deprecated template usage) From unguis (“fingernail, talon”) + -ulus
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈun.ɡu.la/, [ˈʊŋɡʊɫ̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈun.ɡu.la/, [ˈuŋɡulä]
Noun
ungula f (genitive ungulae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | ungula | ungulae |
Genitive | ungulae | ungulārum |
Dative | ungulae | ungulīs |
Accusative | ungulam | ungulās |
Ablative | ungulā | ungulīs |
Vocative | ungula | ungulae |
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Descendants
From a syncopated Vulgar Latin form *ungla:
- Aromanian: unglji
- Asturian: uña
- Catalan: ungla
- Dalmatian: jongla
- Franco-Provençal: ongla
- French: ongle
- Friulian: ongule
- Italian: unghia
- Occitan: ongla, ungla
- Old Galician-Portuguese: unlla, unna
- Romanian: unghie
- Romansch: ungla
- Sardinian: úgna
- Sicilian: ugna
- Spanish: uña
- Tarantino: unghie
- Venetian: ongia, onza
- Walloon: ongue
References
- “ungula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ungula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ungula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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