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Latin
Etymology
Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet- (“swelling”), borrowed through a Osco-Umbrian language; compare Proto-Germanic *kweþuz (“belly, womb”) and German Kuttel (“chitterlings”),[1] Latin beccus.
Pronunciation
Noun
botulus m (genitive botulī); second declension
- sausage, black pudding
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “botulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- botulus 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)
- botulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “botulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ^ Walde, Alois (1910) “botulus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 2nd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 95