stercus
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *(s)terǵ-, *(s)terḱ-, *(s)treḱ- (“manure, dung; to sully, soil, decay”), with similar words across Indo-European branches, albeit with various phonetic difficulties. Compare Welsh troeth (“urine”), Hittite [script needed] (ištar(k)-, “to ail, afflict”), Lithuanian ter̃šti (“to soil”),[1] as well as Proto-Germanic *þrakjaz (“dirt”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈstɛr.kʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈst̪ɛr.kus]
Noun
stercus n (genitive stercoris); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | stercus | stercora |
| genitive | stercoris | stercorum |
| dative | stercorī | stercoribus |
| accusative | stercus | stercora |
| ablative | stercore | stercoribus |
| vocative | stercus | stercora |
Derived terms
- stercorārius
- stercoreus
- stercorō
- stercorōsus
Related terms
Descendants
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “stercus, -oris”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 585
Further reading
- “stercus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “stercus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "stercus", 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)
- stercus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.