surus
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“stick, pole”), the same root of Old English sweor (“pillar, column”).[1] Possibly related to sūra (“calf (of the leg)”).
Noun
[edit]sūrus m (genitive sūrī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | sūrus | sūrī |
| genitive | sūrī | sūrōrum |
| dative | sūrō | sūrīs |
| accusative | sūrum | sūrōs |
| ablative | sūrō | sūrīs |
| vocative | sūre | sūrī |
References
[edit]- “surus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "surus", 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)
- surus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “surus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 635