hamus

Latin

hāmus

Etymology

Of unknown origin. Possibly related to Proto-Germanic *hamô (“collar, harness, fishnet”). Traditionally compared to Ancient Greek χάβος (khábos, “muzzle, curved”), but de Vaan rejects the possibility of a loan due to the vowel length.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈhaː.mus/, [ˈhäːmʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.mus/, [ˈäːmus]

Noun

hāmus m (genitive hāmī); second declension

1. A hook
2. A fishhook
3. The barb of an arrow

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	hāmus	hāmī
genitive	hāmī	hāmōrum
dative	hāmō	hāmīs
accusative	hāmum	hāmōs
ablative	hāmō	hāmīs
vocative	hāme	hāmī

Synonyms

• (hook): uncīnus

Derived terms

• adhāmō
• hāmātus
• hāmiformis
• hāmiōta

Descendants

• Catalan: ham
• Dalmatian: jam
• French: hameçon (from diminutive form)
• Friulian: amp
• Galician: anzol, amocelo (from diminutive forms)
• Italian: amo
• Portuguese: anzol (from diminutive form)
• Sardinian (Campidanese): amu
• Sicilian: amu
• Spanish: hamo, anzuelo (from diminutive form)

References

• “hamus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hamus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hamus 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)
• hamus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “hamus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• 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 279