funambulus

Unadapted borrowing from Latin fūnambulus.

funambulus (plural funambuli)

1. (obsolete) A funambulist; a tightrope walker.

• funambulist

• “funambulus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• fūniambulus

From fūnis (“rope”) +‎ ambulō (“to walk”).

fūnambulus m (genitive fūnambulī); second declension

1. a rope-dancer, tightrope walker; funambulist

Second-declension noun.

• → Catalan: funàmbul
• → English: funambulus
• → French: funambule
• → Portuguese: funâmbulo
• → Sicilian: funàmmulu
• → Spanish: funámbulo
• → Translingual: Funambulus

• “funambulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “funambulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• funambulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “funambulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “funambulus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin