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Latin
Etymology
Uncertain; often suggested to be derived from lūridus (“sallow, pale”),[1][2] perhaps influenced in meaning by Greek λορδός (lordós, “bent backward”),[3] or Frankish *lort (“crooked, lame, clumsy”), if not a full borrowing.
Pronunciation
Adjective
lurdus (feminine lurda, neuter lurdum); first/second-declension adjective[4]
- (Late Latin) slow, heavy
- (Late Latin) clumsy, stupid
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- ^ Greimas, A.J. (1969) “lort, lord”, in Dictionnaire de l'ancien francais jusq'uau milieu du XIVe siècle (in French), Paris: Larousse, page 373
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “LERDO”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, page 358
- ^ Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “lordo”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
- ^ lurdus 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)