urco

Forms

urcō (present infinitive urcāre); first conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stems^[1]

Etymology

It is an onomatopoeic word.^[2]

Earliest recorded meaning

It is recorded in a fragment of Suetonius as the cry of the lynx.^[3][4][5]

Semantic evolution

It also appears, of the lynx, in a poem of the Latin Anthology.^[3][4] Italian dictionaries render it as “to bellow” or “to howl”.^[5][6]

Timeline

• c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius gives it as the cry of the lynx.^[3][5][7]

Meanings

Verb

1. (intransitive, of the lynx) To cry, to make the sound of a lynx.^[2][4]

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
3. ^ a b c Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
4. ^ a b c Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
5. ^ a b c Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
6. ^ Bianchi, Rossella; Lelli, Olga (2014), VOLI: Vocabolario di latino, Florence: Le Monnier
7. ^ Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de