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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κωβιός (kōbiós), probably a Mediterranean substrate (Pre-Greek) loan, possibly Semitic. Compare Akkadian 𒆪𒇥 (kuppū).
Noun
gōbius m (genitive gōbiī or gōbī); second declension
- gudgeon (Gobio gobio and similar fish)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
From gōbius:
From gōbiō:
References
- “gobius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- gobius 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)
- gobius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.