opilio
English
Noun
opilio (plural opilios)
Esperanto
Etymology
From New Latin Opiliones, from Latin ōpiliō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /opiˈlio/
- Rhymes: -io
- Hyphenation: o‧pi‧li‧o
Noun
opilio (accusative singular opilion, plural opilioj, accusative plural opiliojn)
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Ultimately equivalent to ovis (“sheep”) + *piliō (uncertain meaning: “herd”, “driver”?), the latter component perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to drive”), but not entirely inherited. The variants likely point to either dialectal influence or borrowings from other Italic languages; ū- in ūpiliō in particular looks to be Osco-Umbrian. Could be derived from a Proto-Italic compound such as *owi-polos.[1] See cognates at Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis (“sheep”).
Noun
ōpiliō m (genitive ōpiliōnis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | ōpiliō | ōpiliōnēs |
| genitive | ōpiliōnis | ōpiliōnum |
| dative | ōpiliōnī | ōpiliōnibus |
| accusative | ōpiliōnem | ōpiliōnēs |
| ablative | ōpiliōne | ōpiliōnibus |
| vocative | ōpiliō | ōpiliōnēs |
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “ōpiliō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 429
Further reading
- “opilio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “opilio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "opilio", 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)
- opilio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “opilio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers