cavannus

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Gaulish *cawannos, from Proto-Celtic *kuwannos (“owl”), probably imitative in origin.[1]

Noun

cavannus m (genitive cavannī); second declension (Late Latin, Gaul)

  1. tawny owl
    Synonyms: ulula, uluccus
    • mid-5th c., Eucherius of Lyon, Instructionum Libri Duo ad Salonium filium 2.9:
      Sunt qui ululas putent aves esse nocturnas, ab ululatu vocis quem efferunt, quas vulgo cavannos dicunt.
      There are those who think that owls, popularly called cavanni, are nocturnal birds named from the cry that they produce.[2]
    • 9th c., Unknown, Commenta Bernensia 8.55:
      Ululae: aves de ululatu dictae, cuius deminutivum est uluccus, sicut Itali dicunt; quam avem Galli cavannum nuncupant.
      Ululae: birds named from their cry, the diminutive of which is uluccus, as the Italians say; this bird the Gauls name cavannus.[3]

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative cavannus cavannī
genitive cavannī cavannōrum
dative cavannō cavannīs
accusative cavannum cavannōs
ablative cavannō cavannīs
vocative cavanne cavannī

Descendants

References

  • “cavannus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cavannus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “kawanno-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 196
  2. ^ Adams, J. N. (2007) The regional diversification of Latin, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 251
  3. ^ Adams, J. N. (2007) The regional diversification of Latin, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 251
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