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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin curculiō (“weevil”).
Pronunciation
Noun
curculio (plural curculios)
- Any of the genus Curculio of weevils.
- Synonyms: acorn weevil, nut weevil
Derived terms
References
Latin
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, curve, turn”).[1] Cognate with English shrink, and Latin carcer, curvus and cancer.
Pronunciation
Noun
curculiō m (genitive curculiōnis); third declension
- weevil
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “curculio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- curculio 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)
- curculio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “curculio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “curculio”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 314
- ^ Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) “gorgoglione”, in Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes