funambulus

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English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin fūnambulus.

Noun

funambulus (plural funambuli)

  1. (obsolete) A funambulist; a tightrope walker.

References

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From fūnis (“rope”) +‎ ambulō (“to walk”).

Noun

fūnambulus m (genitive fūnambulī); second declension

  1. a rope-dancer, tightrope walker; funambulist

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative fūnambulus fūnambulī
genitive fūnambulī fūnambulōrum
dative fūnambulō fūnambulīs
accusative fūnambulum fūnambulōs
ablative fūnambulō fūnambulīs
vocative fūnambule fūnambulī

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
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