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Latin
Etymology
From *grācō + -ulus. Compare Proto-Slavic *grakati (“to croak”) and in the Germanic branch English croak and Old Norse krákr (“crow”), kráka (“raven”). All can be reconstructed to a root *grāk-, ultimately likely onomatopoeic.[1]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “how can be *greh₂-k- morphologically analyzed”)
Pronunciation
Noun
grāculus m (genitive grāculī); second declension
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Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “grāculus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 268
- “graculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “graculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- graculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.