sibilus
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]An onomatopoeic formation, with similar words in various branches of Indo-European.[1] Gamkrelidze and Ivanov derive the word from Proto-Indo-European *sweysd- (“to hiss”); if so, then related to Welsh chwythu (“to play instrument, blow”), Old Irish séitid (“to blow”), Polish gwizdać (“to whistle”), Old Church Slavonic свистати (svistati, “to whistle”), Russian свисте́ть (svistétʹ, “to whistle”), Sanskrit क्ष्वेडति (kṣveḍati, “to whisper, hum, buzz”), Hindi सीटी (sīṭī, “to whistle”), Proto-Germanic *sweglō (“flute”) and Proto-Germanic *sweglōną (“to play flute”) (compare Old High German swegala (“flute”) and Gothic 𐍃𐍅𐌹𐌲𐌻𐍉𐌽 (swiglōn, “to play flute”)).[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈsiː.bɪ.ɫʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈsiː.bi.lus]
Noun
[edit]sībilus m (genitive sībilī); second declension
- a hissing, whistling
- a contemptuous hissing
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | sībilus | sībilī |
| genitive | sībilī | sībilōrum |
| dative | sībilō | sībilīs |
| accusative | sībilum | sībilōs |
| ablative | sībilō | sībilīs |
| vocative | sībile | sībilī |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “sibilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sibilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “sibilus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 561
- ^ Gamkrelidze, Th. V.; Ivanov, V. V. (1995), Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans. A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and Proto-Culture. Part I: The Text (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 80), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter