arrugia
Latin
Etymology
Unknown.[1] Lewis and Short suggest that it is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rewk- (“to till, dig”), making it cognate with runcō and Ancient Greek ὀρύσσω (orússō). Adams suggests it could be of Punic origin.[2]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [arˈrʊ.ɡi.a]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [arˈruː.d͡ʒi.a]
Noun
arrugia f (genitive arrugiae); first declension
- A shaft and pit in a goldmine
- c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.70:
- cuniculis per magna spatia actis cavantur montes lucernarum ad lumina; eadem mensura vigiliarum est, multisque mensibus non cernitur dies. arrugias id genus vocant.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- cuniculis per magna spatia actis cavantur montes lucernarum ad lumina; eadem mensura vigiliarum est, multisque mensibus non cernitur dies. arrugias id genus vocant.
- c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.77:
- aurum arrugia quaesitum non coquitur, sed statim suum est.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- aurum arrugia quaesitum non coquitur, sed statim suum est.
Declension
First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | arrugia | arrugiae |
| genitive | arrugiae | arrugiārum |
| dative | arrugiae | arrugiīs |
| accusative | arrugiam | arrugiās |
| ablative | arrugiā | arrugiīs |
| vocative | arrugia | arrugiae |
Descendants
References
- ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 33
- ^ J. N. Adams (13 December 2007) The Regional Diversification of Latin 200 BC - AD 600, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 545
Further reading
- “arrugia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- arrugia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.