stloppus
Latin
editEtymology
editOnomatopoeic. Manuscript spellings of the stem include stlop-, stolp-, stloph-, stopl-, stlopl-, stop-, strop-, stropp-, troph-, sclopp-, sclop-, schlopp-, scolpp-, scloppl-, scoph-.[1] Since original /tl/ in Latin eventually passed regularly to /kl/ (as seen in vetulus > veclus), the manuscript forms and descendants are most simply explained by supposing the word originally started with /stl/, which evolved to /skl/ in all inherited Romance descendants, with an additional metathesis in Italian scoppio.
Noun
editstloppus m (genitive stloppī); second declension[2]
- slap (sound produced by striking upon an inflated cheek)
Declension
editSecond-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | stloppus | stloppī |
genitive | stloppī | stloppōrum |
dative | stloppō | stloppīs |
accusative | stloppum | stloppōs |
ablative | stloppō | stloppīs |
vocative | stloppe | stloppī |
Descendants
edit(All descendants reflect regular /tl/ > /kl/; cf. veclus.)
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
References
edit- ^ Jahn, Otto (1843) Satirarum liber; cum scholiis antiquis, editit Otto Jahn[1], page 43
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “stloppus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 12: Sk–š, page 278
Further reading
edit- “stloppus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- scloppus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.