cophinus
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κόφινος (kóphinos, “basket”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkɔ.pʰɪ.nʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkɔː.fi.nus]
Noun
cophinus m (genitive cophinī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cophinus | cophinī |
| genitive | cophinī | cophinōrum |
| dative | cophinō | cophinīs |
| accusative | cophinum | cophinōs |
| ablative | cophinō | cophinīs |
| vocative | cophine | cophinī |
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Piedmontese: còfo
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: cove
- Ibero-Romance:
- Spanish: cuévano
References
- “cophinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cophinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "cophinus", 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)
- cophinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “cophinus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “cophinus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin