haedus

Latin

Alternative forms

• aedus
• ēdus
• hoedus

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *haidos, from earlier *xaidos, probably a loanword from a pre-Indo-European substrate language due to the fact that it cannot be derived from any known root. The only sure cognate is Proto-Germanic *gaits (“goat”).

Varro, in De Lingua Latina cites a Sabine form: fedus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈhae̯.dus/, [ˈhäe̯d̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.dus/, [ˈɛːd̪us]

Noun

haedus m (genitive haedī); second declension

1. young goat, kid

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	haedus	haedī
Genitive	haedī	haedōrum
Dative	haedō	haedīs
Accusative	haedum	haedōs
Ablative	haedō	haedīs
Vocative	haede	haedī

Derived terms

• Haedī
• haedīnus

Descendants

• Eastern Romance
  • Aromanian: ed
  • Megleno-Romanian: ied
  • Romanian: ied
• Sardinian: edu
• Vulgar Latin: *haegulus
  • Old Italian: eghio

See also

• buccus
• caper
• capra
• hircus

References

• “haedus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “haedus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• haedus 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 278
• Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 229