crocodilus

See also: Crocodilus

Latin

Alternative forms

• corcodīlus (by metathesis)
• crocodillus (Late Latin)
• corcodīllus (Late Latin)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κροκόδειλος (krokódeilos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kro.koˈdiː.lus/, [krɔkɔˈd̪iːɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kro.koˈdi.lus/, [krokoˈd̪iːlus]

Noun

crocodīlus m (genitive crocodīlī); second declension

1. A crocodile

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	crocodīlus	crocodīlī
Genitive	crocodīlī	crocodīlōrum
Dative	crocodīlō	crocodīlīs
Accusative	crocodīlum	crocodīlōs
Ablative	crocodīlō	crocodīlīs
Vocative	crocodīle	crocodīlī

Descendants

From a form with metathesis *coccodrīllus, and sometimes more later irregular shifts:

• Medieval Latin: cocodrillus
• Asturian: cocodrilu
• Catalan: cocodril
• Italian: coccodrillo
  • → Maltese: kukkudrill
• Old French: cocodril
  • Norman: crocodile
  • → Middle English: cocodrill, cokadrill, cokedril
    • English: crocodile
      • → Maori: kokorotaera, karakotaera
      • → Niuean: kirokotaili
      • → Tokelauan: kolokotaila
      • → Tongan: kalokataile
      • → Welsh: crocodeil
    • Scots: cocadrille, cokadraill
• Sicilian: cuncutrigghiu, cuncutriddu, cucutrigghiu
• Spanish: cocodrilo

Borrowings

• → Albanian: krokodil
• → Basque: krokodilo
• → Breton: krokodil
• → Bulgarian: крокодил (krokodil)
• → Cornish: krokodil
• → Czech: krokodýl
• → Danish: krokodille
• → Estonian: krokodill
• → Faroese: krokodilla
• → Finnish: krokotiili
• → French: crocodile
  • Antillean Creole: krokodil
  • Mauritian Creole: krokodil
  • Seychellois Creole: krokodil
  • → Romanian: crocodil
  • → Persian: کروکودیل (krokodil)
• → Galician: crocodilo
• → German: Krokodil
  • → Hungarian: krokodil (or directly from Latin)
  • → Middle Russian: крокоди́лъ (krokodíl)
    • Russian: крокоди́л (krokodíl), крокоди́лъ (krokodíl)
      • → Bezhta: каракадил (karakadil)
      • → English: krokodil
      • → French: krokodil
      • → Ingrian: krokodila
      • → Kildin Sami: крокадил (krokadil)
  • → Old Ruthenian: крокоди́лъ (krokodíl), крокоды́лъ (krokodýl), крокоды́ль (krokodýlʹ)
    • Belarusian: кракадзі́л (krakadzíl)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: крокоді́л (krokodíl)
    • Ukrainian: крокоди́л (krokodýl)
• → Irish: crogall
• → Icelandic: krókódíll
• → Kyrgyz: крокодил (krokodil)
• → Latvian: krokodils
• → Lithuanian: krokodilas
• → Luxembourgish: Krokodil
• → Macedonian: крокодил (krokodil)
• → Middle Dutch: crocodil
  • Dutch: krokodil
    • Afrikaans: krokodil
• → Norwegian: krokodille
• → Occitan: crocodil
• → Polish: krokodyl
• → Portuguese: crocodilo
• → Scottish Gaelic: crogall
• → Serbo-Croatian: krokodil
• → Slovak: krokodíl
• → Swedish: krokodil
• → Slovene: krokodil
• → Tajik: крокодил (krokodil)
• → Turkmen: krokodil
• → West Frisian: krokodil
• → Yiddish: קראָקאָדיל (krokodil)

References

• “crocodilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “crocodilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• crocodilus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.