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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin helluo (“glutton, squanderer”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
helluo (plural helluos)
- (obsolete) A glutton, a gormandizer.
References
Latin
Etymology
From helluārī + -ō (suffix forming masculine agent nouns, nicknames, and other designations);[1] helluārī is the present active infinitive of helluor (“to be a glutton, gormandize”), further etymology unknown.
Pronunciation
Noun
helluō m (genitive helluōnis); third declension
- glutton
- Synonyms: lurcō, cataphagās, comedō, edō, dēgulātor, gāneō, gluttō, gulō, gumia, mandō, mandūcō, phagō, polyphagus, catīllō
- squanderer
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
References
- “helluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- helluo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “helluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press