tuburcinor
Latin
editEtymology
editDe Vaan[1] speculatively identifies this verb with tūber (“swelling”). According to this theory, tuburcinor originally meant "to be(come) a fat, stuffed person (by eating greedily)", and is derived from a noun *tūbVrko- (“fat person”) (where V is an unspecified vowel), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /tuˈbur.ki.nor/, [t̪ʊˈbʊrkɪnɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /tuˈbur.t͡ʃi.nor/, [t̪uˈburt͡ʃinor]
Verb
edittuburcinor (present infinitive tuburcinārī, perfect active tuburcinātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
- (transitive) to eat greedily, gobble up, devour
Conjugation
editReferences
edit- “tuburcinor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tuburcinor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “tūber”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 632