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ingluvies

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Etymology

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Latin

Noun

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ingluvies

  1. (anatomy) The crop, or craw, of birds.

Derived terms

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Latin

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (throat).[1] Compare Latin gula (throat), gluttiō (I gulp down), Russian глотка (glotka, throat) and Persian گلو (throat).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ingluviēs f (genitive ingluviēī); fifth declension

  1. (anatomy) the crop of birds
  2. gluttony, voraciousness

Declension

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Fifth-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative ingluviēs ingluviēs
genitive ingluviēī ingluviērum
dative ingluviēī ingluviēbus
accusative ingluviem ingluviēs
ablative ingluviē ingluviēbus
vocative ingluviēs ingluviēs

Descendants

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  • English: ingluvies
  • Spanish: ingluvie
  • Italian: gobbio, ingluvie

References

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  • ingluvies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ingluvies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “gel-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 364-365