eunuchus

Latin

Etymology

    Borrowed from Ancient Greek εὐνοῦχος (eunoûkhos).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    eunūchus m (genitive eunūchī); second declension

    1. eunuch

    Declension

    Second-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative eunūchus eunūchī
    genitive eunūchī eunūchōrum
    dative eunūchō eunūchīs
    accusative eunūchum eunūchōs
    ablative eunūchō eunūchīs
    vocative eunūche eunūchī

    Descendants

    • → Catalan: eunuc
    • → English: eunuch
    • → French: eunuque
    • → Galician: eunuco
    • → Italian: eunuco
    • → Occitan: eunuc
    • → Portuguese: eunuco
    • → Romanian: eunuc
    • → Spanish: eunuco

    References

    • “eunuchus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “eunuchus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "eunuchus", 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)
    • eunuchus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • “eunuchus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

    Middle English

    Noun

    eunuchus

    1. alternative form of eunuk
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