zabulus
Latin
Alternative forms
- zabolus (Hellenizing spelling)
- Zabulus, Zabolus (when used as a proper noun)
Etymology
Via regular assibilation as also happened in Aeolic Ancient Greek ζάβολος (zábolos).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈza.bʊ.ɫʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈd̪͡z̪aː.bu.lus]
- Note: the first vowel of this word is phonemically short, as in the original Ancient Greek.
Noun
zabulus m (genitive zabulī); second declension
- alternative spelling of diabolus
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | zabulus | zabulī |
| genitive | zabulī | zabulōrum |
| dative | zabulō | zabulīs |
| accusative | zabulum | zabulōs |
| ablative | zabulō | zabulīs |
| vocative | zabule | zabulī |
Further reading
- “Zābŭlus or Zābŏlus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "ZABULUS", 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)
- zābŏlus ou zābŭlus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “1,700/1”
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “zabolus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1,138/1