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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek εὐνοῦχος (eunoûkhos).
Pronunciation
Noun
eunūchus m (genitive eunūchī); second declension
- eunuch
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “eunuchus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “eunuchus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "eunuchus", 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)
- eunuchus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “eunuchus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Middle English
Noun
eunuchus
- alternative form of eunuk