vespillo

See also: Vespillo

English

Etymology

From Latin vespillo.

Noun

vespillo (plural vespilloes)

1. (historical, Roman antiquity) One who carried out the dead bodies of the poor at night for burial.
   • Sir Thomas Browne

     Like vespilloes or grave makers.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “vespillo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Latin

Etymology

diminutive of vespa.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯esˈpil.loː/, [u̯ɛs̠ˈpɪlːʲoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vesˈpil.lo/, [vesˈpilːo]

Noun

vespillō m (genitive vespillōnis); third declension

1. An undertaker who buries paupers.
2. A ghoul, graverobber.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vespillō	vespillōnēs
Genitive	vespillōnis	vespillōnum
Dative	vespillōnī	vespillōnibus
Accusative	vespillōnem	vespillōnēs
Ablative	vespillōne	vespillōnibus
Vocative	vespillō	vespillōnēs

References

• “vespillo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vespillo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “vespillo”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray