haedus

• aedus
• ēdus
• hoedus
• hedus

From Proto-Italic *haidos, from earlier *xaidos, probably a loanword from a pre-Indo-European substrate language due to the fact that it cannot be derived from any known root. The only sure cognate is Proto-Germanic *gaits (“goat”).

Varro, in De Lingua Latina cites a Sabine form: fedus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈhae̯.dʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛː.d̪us]

haedus m (genitive haedī); second declension

1. young goat, kid
   • 116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, De Lingua Latina V.97:

     Ηircus, quod Sabini fircus; quod illic fedus, in Latio rure hedus, qui in urbe ut in multis A addito haedus.

     We Romans say "hircus" [he-goat], when the Sabines: "fircus"; and that which they there call "fedus" is in the Roman countryside said "hedus", the which in Rome, with the letter A added as in several other such terms, is said "haedus".

Varro claims this form was more popular in the city while hedus was more common in rural areas.

Second-declension noun.

• buccus
• caper
• capra
• hircus

• Haedī
• haedīnus

• “haedus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “haedus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• haedus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• 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 278
• Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 229