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Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Unknown, a word avoided by the authors as vulgar. Probably imitative. Compare Middle High German slurken (“to swallow”), Arabic لَقِمَ (laqima, “to swallow”).
Verb
lurcō (present infinitive lurcāre, perfect active lurcāvī, supine lurcātum); first conjugation
- to eat greedily, to guzzle
Conjugation
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From lurcō, lurcāre + -ō, -ōn- (noun-forming suffix).
Noun
lurcō m (genitive lurcōnis); third declension
- glutton, gourmand
- a general invective
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Synonyms
- (glutton): cataphagās, comedō, dēgulātor, edō, gāneō, glūtō, gluttō, gulō, gumia, helluō, mandō, mandūcō, mandūcus, phagō, polyphagus
References
- Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “lurco”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 371
- “lurcō, v.”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lurcō, n.”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lurco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “lurco”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers