carbunculus
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From carbō (“coal, charcoal”) + -culus (diminutive nominal suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /karˈbun.ku.lus/, [kärˈbʊŋkʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /karˈbun.ku.lus/, [kärˈbuŋkulus]
Noun
[edit]carbunculus m (genitive carbunculī); second declension
- diminutive of carbō: small coal
- (figurative) burning or devouring sorrow
- (metonymically)
- kind of sandstone, red toph-stone
- reddish, bright kind of precious stone, probably comprising the ruby, carbuncle, hyacinth, garnet
- A disease:
- (pathology) kind of tumor, carbuncle
- (phytopathology) disease caused by hoar-frost
Inflection
[edit]Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | carbunculus | carbunculī |
| genitive | carbunculī | carbunculōrum |
| dative | carbunculō | carbunculīs |
| accusative | carbunculum | carbunculōs |
| ablative | carbunculō | carbunculīs |
| vocative | carbuncule | carbunculī |
Descendants
[edit]- → French: carboucle, carboncle
- → Galician: caruncho (semi-learned); → cabúnculo
- → Italian: carbonchio, carbuncolo
- Old Catalan: carbonclo, carblonco, corblonco, carvoncle
- → Old Northern French: charbuncle
- → English: carbuncle
- → Portuguese: carbúnculo
- → Russian: карбу́нкул (karbúnkul)
- → Spanish: carbunclo, carbúnculo
References
[edit]- “carbunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “carbunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- carbunculus 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)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934) “carbunculus”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.