agolum

== Latin == === Etymology === Uncertain. Probably related to agō (“to do”). De Vaan suggests that the term might be an Old Latin spelling for *agulum, which would reflect older *age-los. The linguist Benedicte Nielsen suggests that the term could reflect earlier *h₂aǵ-tlom, itself from *h₂eǵ- +‎ *-tlom, which she suggests may also be the source for Sanskrit aṣṭrā (“goad”). However, this theory requires an initial long-ā vowel. The length of the vowel is not definitively affirmed by the text, though Nielsen suggests that the term coāgulum attests to the existence of initial long-vowels in words derived from the same root. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈa.ɡɔ.ɫũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈaː.ɡo.lum] === Noun === agolum n (genitive agolī); second declension (hapax legomenon) A crook (shepherd's staff) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). === References === “agolum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “agolum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 31 James Clackson; Birgit Anette Olsen (2004), Indo-European Word Formation: Proceedings of the Conference Held at the University of Copenhagen, October 20th - 22nd 2000‎[1], Museum Tusculanum Press, →ISBN, page 203