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)

1. 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

1. eel
2. 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