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Latin
Etymology
Unknown. Probably from a substrate source, like Ancient Greek ὀρόντιον (oróntion) and ἄρον (áron, “cuckoopint, arum”).
Noun
arundō f (genitive arundinis); third declension
- reed
- fishing rod
- shaft of an arrow
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- arundo 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)
- “arundo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers