crocodilus

See also: Crocodilus

Latin

Alternative forms

corcodīlus (by metathesis)
crocodillus (Late Latin)
corcodīllus (Late Latin)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κροκόδειλος (krokódeilos).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [krɔ.kɔˈdiː.ɫʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kro.koˈd̪iː.lus]

Noun

crocodīlus m (genitive crocodīlī); second declension

A crocodile

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	crocodīlus	crocodīlī
genitive	crocodīlī	crocodīlōrum
dative	crocodīlō	crocodīlīs
accusative	crocodīlum	crocodīlōs
ablative	crocodīlō	crocodīlīs
vocative	crocodīle	crocodīlī

Descendants

From a form with metathesis *coccodrīllus, and sometimes more later irregular shifts:

Medieval Latin: cocodrillus
Asturian: cocodriellu
Catalan: cocodril
Italian: coccodrillo
- → Maltese: kukkudrill
Old French: cocodril
- Norman: crocodile
- → Middle English: cocodrill, cokadrill, cokedril
  - English: crocodile
    - → Maori: kokorotaera, karakotaera
    - → Niuean: kirokotaili
    - → Tokelauan: kolokotaila
    - → Tongan: kalokataile
    - → Welsh: crocodeil
  - Scots: cocadrille, cokadraill
Sicilian: cuncutrigghiu, cuncutriddu, cucutrigghiu
Spanish: cocodrilo

Borrowings

→ Asturian: cocodrilu
→ Albanian: krokodil
→ Basque: krokodilo
→ Breton: krokodil
→ Bulgarian: крокодил (krokodil)
→ Cornish: krokodil
→ Czech: krokodýl
→ Danish: krokodille
→ Estonian: krokodill
→ Faroese: krokodilla
→ Finnish: krokotiili
→ French: crocodile
- Antillean Creole: krokodil
- Mauritian Creole: krokodil
- Seychellois Creole: krokodil
- → Romanian: crocodil
- → Persian: کروکودیل (krokodil)
→ Galician: crocodilo
→ German: Krokodil
- → Hungarian: krokodil (or directly from Latin)
- → Middle Russian: крокоди́лъ (krokodíl)
  - Russian: крокоди́л (krokodíl), крокоди́лъ (krokodíl) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
    - → Bezhta: каракадил (karakadil)
    - → English: krokodil
    - → French: krokodil
    - → Ingrian: krokodila
    - → Kildin Sami: крокадил (krokadil)
- → Old Ruthenian: крокоди́лъ (krokodíl), крокоды́лъ (krokodýl), крокоды́ль (krokodýlʹ)
  - Belarusian: кракадзі́л (krakadzíl)
  - Carpathian Rusyn: крокоді́л (krokodíl)
  - Ukrainian: крокоди́л (krokodýl)
→ Irish: crogall
→ Icelandic: krókódíll
→ Kyrgyz: крокодил (krokodil)
→ Latvian: krokodils
→ Lithuanian: krokodilas
→ Luxembourgish: Krokodil
→ Macedonian: крокодил (krokodil)
→ Middle Dutch: crocodil
- Dutch: krokodil
  - Afrikaans: krokodil
→ Norwegian: krokodille
→ Occitan: crocodil
→ Polish: krokodyl
→ Portuguese: crocodilo
→ Scottish Gaelic: crogall
→ Serbo-Croatian: krokodil
→ Slovak: krokodíl
→ Swedish: krokodil
→ Slovene: krokodil
→ Tajik: крокодил (krokodil)
→ Turkmen: krokodil
→ West Frisian: krokodil
→ Yiddish: קראָקאָדיל (krokodil)

References

“crocodilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“crocodilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
crocodilus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.