aduncus

From ad + uncus (“a hook; hooked”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈdun.kus/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈdun.kus/,

aduncus (feminine adunca, neuter aduncum); first/second-declension adjective

1. hooked, bent, curved
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.195–196:

     sī quaeritis astra tunc oritur magnī praepes adunca Iovis.

     If you all are looking for stars, from then on rises the swift hooked of mighty Jupiter.
     (See: Aquila (constellation); Jupiter (mythology); Eagle: a bird of prey with a large hooked beak.)

First/second-declension adjective.

• aduncitās

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