serpyllum
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek ἕρπυλλος (hérpullos). This spelling is educated. In Old Latin the spelling serpullum was dominating, the Greek origin not being well known, and this form stays in speech up to Romance.
Noun
[edit]serpyllum n (genitive serpyllī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | serpyllum | serpylla |
genitive | serpyllī | serpyllōrum |
dative | serpyllō | serpyllīs |
accusative | serpyllum | serpylla |
ablative | serpyllō | serpyllīs |
vocative | serpyllum | serpylla |
Descendants
[edit]- serpullum
- *serpullellum
- Italian: sermollino
- Romanian: serpunél
- serpillum
- Italian: serpillo
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “serpyllum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Niedermann, Max (1950) “Der Suffixtypus -ullus, -a, -um lateinischer Appellativa”, in Museum Helveticum[1], page 157