sciurus
See also: Sciurus
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek σκίουρος (skíouros, “squirrel”), from σκιά (skiá, “shadow”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /skiˈuː.rus/, [s̠kiˈuːrʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ʃiˈu.rus/, [ʃiˈuːrus]
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | sciūrus | sciūrī |
| Genitive | sciūrī | sciūrōrum |
| Dative | sciūrō | sciūrīs |
| Accusative | sciūrum | sciūrōs |
| Ablative | sciūrō | sciūrīs |
| Vocative | sciūre | sciūrī |
Descendants
The descendants reflect a metathesized form *scūrius, usually as a diminutive *scūriolus (Western) or *scuriattus (Central).
Descendants
- ⇒ Aragonese: esquirgüelo
- ⇒ Asturian: esquilu
- ⇒ Corsican: scurriolu, scurrichjolu, currachjolu; scoiattulu, scuiattulu
- → Esperanto: sciuro
- ⇒ Franco-Provençal: ècurél
- ⇒ Friulian: sghirate, sghirat
- ⇒ Galician: esquío
- ⇒ Italian: scoiattolo
- ⇒ Ladin: schirata
- ⇒ Lombard: sghiratt, sghiràt, schiràt
- ⇒ Old French: escurel, escureul, escuirel
- ⇒ Old Occitan:
- ⇒ Piedmontese: schërieul
- ⇒ Portuguese: esquilo
- Romanian: știur
- ⇒ Romansch: stgilat
- ⇒ Sardinian: schirrittu, schirrimatta; iscojàttulu
- ⇒ Sicilian: scuiàttulu, scujàttulu
- → Maltese: skojjattlu, skojattlu
- ⇒ Spanish: esquilo
- → Translingual: Sciurus
- ⇒ Venetian: schirato, schirat
References
- “sciurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sciurus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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