gerdius

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek γέρδιος (gérdios), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵers- (“to twist; to plait”).[1] See also Old Armenian ծառ (caṙ, “tree”), Ancient Greek γέρρον (gérrhon, “wattle-fence”) and Old Norse kjarr (“copsewood, brush-wood, thicket”).

Pronunciation

Noun

gerdius m (genitive gerdiī or gerdī); second declension

  1. a weaver

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative gerdius gerdiī
Genitive gerdiī
gerdī1 		gerdiōrum
Dative gerdiō gerdiīs
Accusative gerdium gerdiōs
Ablative gerdiō gerdiīs
Vocative gerdie gerdiī

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “gers-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 392-393
  • “gerdius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • gerdius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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