zabolus

Latin

Alternative forms

• zabulus (Latinized spelling)
• Zabolus, Zabulus (when used as a proper noun)

Etymology

Via regular assibilation as also happened in Aeolic Ancient Greek ζάβολος (zábolos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈza.bu.lus/, [ˈd̪͡z̪äbʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡za.bo.lus/, [ˈd̪͡z̪äːbolus]
• Note: the first vowel of this word is phonemically short, as in the original Ancient Greek.

Noun

zabolus m (genitive zabolī); second declension

1. Alternative form of diabolus.

Further reading

• “Zābŭlus or Zābŏlus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ZABULUS 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)
• zābŏlus ou zābŭlus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.: “1,700/1”
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “zabolus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1,138/1