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Latin
Etymology
A borrowing, probably ultimately from Proto-Celtic *rūskos, in any case via Ancient Greek ῥίσκος (rhískos, “chest, trunk”). According to Beekes the change from the Celtic vowel is likely explained by the Ancient Greek word having been borrowed via Phrygian from Galatian.
Noun
riscus m (genitive riscī); second declension
- box, chest, trunk
- (Medieval Latin) window
1712, Engelbert Kaempfer,
Amoenitatēs Exoticae I.8.107:
- Aliquando sine impluvio exstructum, aedificii molem constituit compressam, paucis columnis nixam, luminis admittentem modicum per riscos affabre clatratos.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
References
- “riscus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “riscus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "riscus", 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)
- riscus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “riscus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- riscus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1288
- Steiner-Weber, Astrid (2012) “riscus”, in Glossar zu Engelbert Kaempfer