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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂enk- (“to bend; bow; curve”). Cognate with Latin uncus (“hook”), Proto-Germanic *angijō (“ing”), Ancient Greek ἄγκος (ánkos, “a bend; hollow; mountain glen; dell; valley”), Sanskrit अङ्कस् (aṅkas, “a bend or curve”).
Noun
ungulus m (genitive ungulī); second declension
- A finger ring in the Oscan language
Declension
Second-declension noun.
References
- “ungulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ungulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.