cervus
See also: Cervus
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Italic *kerwos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂wós, from *ḱerh₂- (“horn”) (whence English horn, hirn, Latin cornū (“horn”)) + *-wós (whence Latin -vus).
Cognate with Welsh carw (“deer”), and Ancient Greek κεραός (keraós, “horned”). The first-syllable -e- was likely taken from the PIE root noun *ḱerh₂s (“horn”) (itself eventually lost in Latin), while the shift in meaning from “horned” to “deer” may be common Italo-Celtic.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkɛr.wʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛr.vus]
Noun
cervus m (genitive cervī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cervus | cervī |
| genitive | cervī | cervōrum |
| dative | cervō | cervīs |
| accusative | cervum | cervōs |
| ablative | cervō | cervīs |
| vocative | cerve | cervī |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Gallo-Italic:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Italo-Dalmatian:
- Sardinian:
- Borrowings:
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 111
Further reading
- “cervus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cervus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "cervus", 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)
- cervus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.