curculio

See also: Curculio

English

Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Curculio, from Latin curculiō (“weevil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɜː(ɹ)ˈkjuːliəʊ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

curculio (plural curculios)

1. Any of the genus Curculio of weevils.

   Synonyms: acorn weevil, nut weevil

Derived terms

• plum curculio

Translations

Translations

• Russian: плодожи́л (ru) m (plodožíl)

References

• “curculio”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Alternative forms

• gurgulio

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, curve, turn”), thus related to Latin carcer, cancer and curvus, which see for more cognates. However, it may instead be of substrate origin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kurˈku.li.oː/, [kʊrˈkʊlʲioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kurˈku.li.o/, [kurˈkuːlio]

Noun

curculiō m (genitive curculiōnis); third declension

1. weevil

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	curculiō	curculiōnēs
genitive	curculiōnis	curculiōnum
dative	curculiōnī	curculiōnibus
accusative	curculiōnem	curculiōnēs
ablative	curculiōne	curculiōnibus
vocative	curculiō	curculiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: corcoll
• Galician: gurgullo
• Italian: gorgoglio, gorgoglione, → curculione
• Portuguese: gorgulho
• Sardinian:
  • Campidanese: crugulloni, urguggioni, grulloni, gruguzoi
  • Logudorese: iscutzone, isgurzone, orguzone, gulligione
  • Nuorese: gulligione, arguzone, arguggione, gurtizone
• Spanish: gorgojo
• Translingual: → Curculio, ⇒ Curculionichthys

References

• “curculio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "curculio", 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)
• curculio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “curculio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers