botulus

Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet- (“swelling”), borrowed through an Osco-Umbrian language; compare Proto-Germanic *kweþuz (“belly, womb”) and German Kuttel (“chitterlings”),^[1] Latin beccus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbɔ.tʊ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbɔː.t̪u.lus]

botulus m (genitive botulī); second declension

1. sausage, black pudding

Second-declension noun.

• botellus
• botulīnus

• “botulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "botulus", 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)
• botulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “botulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers