anguilla

From Latin anguilla.

• IPA^(key): /anˈɡwil.la/
• Rhymes: -illa
• Hyphenation: an‧guìl‧la

anguilla f (plural anguille)

1. eel

• capitone

• allungai

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂engʷʰ- (“water-worm, eel”). Cognate with Old Prussian angurgis and Albanian ngjalë, Ancient Greek ἔγχελυς (énkhelus, “eel”), Old High German angar (“mealworm, larva, grub”) (Modern German Engerling), Proto-Slavic *ǫgořь, Lithuanian ungurỹs.

Influenced by anguis (“snake”), in the same way Ancient Greek ἔγχελῠς (énkhelus, “eel”) was influenced by ἔχις (ékhis, “snake”), but unfortunately no Proto-Indo-European form can be reconstructed due to similar changes in other daughter languages, commonly attributed to a taboo. Compare Finnish borrowing ankerias.

• anguīlla: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /anˈɡʷiːl.la/,
• anguīlla: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /anˈɡwil.la/,
• anguīllā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /anˈɡʷiːl.laː/,
• anguīllā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /anˈɡwil.la/,

anguīlla f (genitive anguīllae); first declension

1. eel
2. small snake

First-declension noun.

• “anguilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “anguilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• anguilla 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)
• anguilla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “anguilla”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “anguilla”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin