hordeolus

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive from hordeum (“barley”) +‎ -olus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /horˈde.o.lus/, [hɔrˈd̪eɔɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /orˈde.o.lus/, [orˈd̪ɛːolus]

Noun

hordeolus m (genitive hordeolī); second declension

1. a stye in the eye

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	hordeolus	hordeolī
Genitive	hordeolī	hordeolōrum
Dative	hordeolō	hordeolīs
Accusative	hordeolum	hordeolōs
Ablative	hordeolō	hordeolīs
Vocative	hordeole	hordeolī

Descendants

• Aromanian: ulcior
• Catalan: urçol, mussol, → ordèol
• French: orgelet
• Galician: orizó, orzón
• Italian: orzaiolo
• Old French: orgeoul
• → Portuguese: hordéolo
• Romanian: urcior
• Old Spanish: orçuelo
  • Spanish: orzuelo
• Venetian: orxoło

References

• “hordeolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• hordeolus 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)
• hordeolus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.