anguilla

See also: Anguilla

Italian

Etymology

From Latin anguilla.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /anˈɡwil.la/
Rhymes: -illa
Hyphenation: an‧guìl‧la

Noun

anguilla f (plural anguille)

eel

Hyponyms

capitone

Anagrams

allungai

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂engʷʰ- (“water-worm, eel”). Cognate with Old Prussian angurgis and Albanian ngjalë, Ancient Greek ἔγχελυς (énkhelus, “eel”), Old High German angar (“mealworm, larva, grub”) (Modern German Engerling), Proto-Slavic *ǫgořь, Lithuanian ungurỹs.

Influenced by anguis (“snake”), in the same way Ancient Greek ἔγχελῠς (énkhelus, “eel”) was influenced by ἔχις (ékhis, “snake”), but unfortunately no Proto-Indo-European form can be reconstructed due to similar changes in other daughter languages, commonly attributed to a taboo. Compare Finnish borrowing ankerias.

Pronunciation

anguīlla: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /anˈɡʷiːl.la/, [äŋˈɡʷiːlːʲä]
anguīlla: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /anˈɡwil.la/, [äŋˈɡwilːä]
anguīllā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /anˈɡʷiːl.laː/, [äŋˈɡʷiːlːʲäː]
anguīllā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /anˈɡwil.la/, [äŋˈɡwilːä]

Noun

anguīlla f (genitive anguīllae); first declension

eel
small snake

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	anguīlla	anguīllae
genitive	anguīllae	anguīllārum
dative	anguīllae	anguīllīs
accusative	anguīllam	anguīllās
ablative	anguīllā	anguīllīs
vocative	anguīlla	anguīllae

Descendants

Catalan: anguila
Dalmatian: anǧola
Basque: aingira
French: anguille
Friulian: anzile
Galician: anguía
Italian: anguilla
Old Galician-Portuguese: anguia
Piedmontese: anguila
Portuguese: enguia
Romanian: anghilă
Sardinian: ambidda, anguidda
Serbo-Croatian: јѐгуља / jègulja
Sicilian: ancidda, anghidda, ncidda, nghidda
Spanish: anguila
Translingual: Anguilla

References

“anguilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“anguilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
anguilla 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)
anguilla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“anguilla”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“anguilla”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin