wantus
Latin
Alternative forms
- guantus, gantus
Etymology
Borrowed from Frankish *wantu (“glove”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwan.tʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈwan̪.t̪us]
Noun
wantus m (genitive wantī); second declension[1][2]
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | wantus | wantī |
| genitive | wantī | wantōrum |
| dative | wantō | wantīs |
| accusative | wantum | wantōs |
| ablative | wantō | wantīs |
| vocative | wante | wantī |
Descendants
- Old French: gant, gaunt
- Iberian:
- Italian: guanto
- Old Occitan: gant, gaunt
- Ladin: guant
- Piedmontese: guant
- Sicilian: nguantu
- → Old High German: wantus, guantus, vantus, wanta
References
- ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “wantus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1126
- ^ "wantus", 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)