opilio

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English[edit]

Noun[edit]

opilio (plural opilios)

  1. The snow crab Chionoecetes opilio.

Esperanto[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From New Latin Opiliones, from Latin ōpiliō.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [opiˈlio]
  • Rhymes: -io
  • Hyphenation: o‧pi‧li‧o

Noun[edit]

opilio (accusative singular opilion, plural opilioj, accusative plural opiliojn)

  1. daddy longlegs, harvestman

Latin[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis (“sheep”) + Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to drive”).[1]

Noun[edit]

ōpiliō m (genitive ōpiliōnis); third declension

  1. shepherd

Declension[edit]

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ōpiliō ōpiliōnēs
Genitive ōpiliōnis ōpiliōnum
Dative ōpiliōnī ōpiliōnibus
Accusative ōpiliōnem ōpiliōnēs
Ablative ōpiliōne ōpiliōnibus
Vocative ōpiliō ōpiliōnēs

References[edit]

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “ōpiliō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 429

Further reading[edit]

  • “opilio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “opilio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • opilio 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)
  • opilio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “opilio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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