solifuga

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Folk-etymologically from sālpūga, by which etymology the word is to be analyzed as sōl (sun) +‎ fugiō (I flee).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sōlifuga f (genitive sōlifugae); first declension

  1. (Late Latin) solifuge, camel spider

Declension

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative sōlifuga sōlifugae
genitive sōlifugae sōlifugārum
dative sōlifugae sōlifugīs
accusative sōlifugam sōlifugās
ablative sōlifugā sōlifugīs
vocative sōlifuga sōlifugae

Descendants

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  • English: solifuge
  • Spanish: solífugo (via sōlifugus)
  • Translingual: Solifugae

References

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  • solifuga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • solifuga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • solifuga in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
  • Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “sālpūga”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 470