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Latin
Etymology
Unknown.[1] Lewis and Short suggest that it is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rewk-, making it cognate with runcō and Ancient Greek ὀρύσσω (orússō). Adams suggests it could be of Punic origin.[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
arrugia f (genitive arrugiae); first declension
- A shaft and pit in a goldmine
c. 77 CE – 79 CE,
Pliny the Elder,
Naturalis Historia 33.70:
- cuniculis per magna spatia actis cavantur montes lucernarum ad lumina; eadem mensura vigiliarum est, multisque mensibus non cernitur dies. arrugias id genus vocant.
447 CE, Cassius Felix,
De medicina 28.3, (gesentera =
γῆς έντερα):
- gesentera id est vermiculos de arrugia
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 33
- ^ J. N. Adams (2007 December 13) The Regional Diversification of Latin 200 BC - AD 600, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 545
Further reading
- “arrugia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- arrugia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.