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English
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin fūnambulus.
Noun
funambulus (plural funambuli)
- (obsolete) A funambulist; a tightrope walker.
References
Latin
Etymology
From fūnis (“rope”) + ambulō (“to walk”).
Noun
fūnambulus m (genitive fūnambulī); second declension
- a rope-dancer, tightrope walker; funambulist
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “funambulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “funambulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- funambulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “funambulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “funambulus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin