botulus

See also: Botulus

Latin

Etymology

Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet- (“swelling”), borrowed through a Osco-Umbrian language; compare Proto-Germanic *kweþuz (“belly, womb”) and German Kuttel (“chitterlings”), Latin beccus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbo.tu.lus/, [ˈbɔt̪ʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbo.tu.lus/, [ˈbɔːt̪ulus]

Noun

botulus m (genitive botulī); second declension

1. sausage, black pudding

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	botulus	botulī
Genitive	botulī	botulōrum
Dative	botulō	botulīs
Accusative	botulum	botulōs
Ablative	botulō	botulīs
Vocative	botule	botulī

Derived terms

• botellus
• botulīnus

Descendants

• Catalan: bull
• ⇒ German: Botulin
  • → English: botulin
  • Italian: botulino
• ⇒ German: Botulismus
  • → Catalan: botulisme
  • → English: botulism
  • → French: botulisme
  • → Italian: botulismo
  • → Spanish: botulismo

References

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