solifuga

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Folk-etymologically from sālpūga, by which etymology the word is to be analyzed as sōl (“sun”) +‎ fugiō (“I flee”).

Pronunciation

Noun

sōlifuga f (genitive sōlifugae); first declension

  1. (Late Latin) solifuge, camel spider

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative sōlifuga sōlifugae
genitive sōlifugae sōlifugārum
dative sōlifugae sōlifugīs
accusative sōlifugam sōlifugās
ablative sōlifugā sōlifugīs
vocative sōlifuga sōlifugae

Descendants

  • → English: solifuge
  • → Spanish: solífugo (via sōlifugus)
  • → Translingual: Solifugae

References

  • solifuga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “solifuga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • solifuga in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
  • Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “sālpūga”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 470
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