hirudo
See also: Hirudo
Esperanto
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hiˈrudo/
- Rhymes: -udo
- Hyphenation: hi‧ru‧do
Noun
hirudo (accusative singular hirudon, plural hirudoj, accusative plural hirudojn)
Latin
Etymology
Unknown. Seemingly a parallel formation with testūdō (from testū), but no stem *hiru- is known. Stifter suggests it may be related to Old Irish giritán (“periwinkle”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [hɪˈruː.doː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [iˈruː.d̪o]
Noun
hirūdō f (genitive hirūdinis); third declension
- A leech.
- Synonym: sanguisūga
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | hirūdō | hirūdinēs |
| genitive | hirūdinis | hirūdinum |
| dative | hirūdinī | hirūdinibus |
| accusative | hirūdinem | hirūdinēs |
| ablative | hirūdine | hirūdinibus |
| vocative | hirūdō | hirūdinēs |
Descendants
- English: hirudin, hirudinoid
- Esperanto: hirudo
- Translingual: Hirudo
- Italian: irudine
- Occitan: iruge
- Portuguese: hirudíneo
- Spanish: hirudíneo
References
- “hirudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “hirudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "hirudo", 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)
- hirudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.