naulum

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ναῦλος (naûlos).

Noun

naulum n (genitive naulī); second declension (Late Latin)

fare
- c. 100 CE – c. 130 CE, Juvenal, Satires 8.97:
  Furor est post omnia perdere naulum.
  It were madness to waste the fare after all that.
- 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Ionae.1.3:
  Et surrēxit Iōnas, ut fugeret in Tharsis a facie Domini, et descendit in Joppen : et invenit navem euntem in Tharsis, et dedit naulum ejus, et descendit in eam ut iret cum eis in Tharsis a facie Domini.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	naulum	naula
genitive	naulī	naulōrum
dative	naulō	naulīs
accusative	naulum	naula
ablative	naulō	naulīs
vocative	naulum	naula

Descendants

⇒ Vulgar Latin: *naulium
- Old Catalan: noli, nolit
  - Catalan: noli, nòlit
    - → Occitan: noli, nolit
      - → Middle French: nolit, noly, nolis, naulis
        French: nolis
⇒ Medieval Latin: naulāticum
- → Old French: naulage
  - Middle French: naulage
    - French: naulage
      - → English: naulage
  - → Medieval Latin: naulagium
→ Italian: naulo, nolo
→ Portuguese: naulo
→ Venetan: naulo, navolo, nolo

References

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