anguilla

== Italian == === Etymology === From Latin anguilla. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /anˈɡwil.la/ Rhymes: -illa Hyphenation: an‧guìl‧la === Noun === anguilla f (plural anguille) eel ==== Hyponyms ==== capitone === Anagrams === allungai == Latin == === Etymology === Derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂engʷʰ- (“water-worm, eel”). Cognate with Old Prussian angurgis and Albanian ngjalë, Ancient Greek ἔγχελυς (énkhelus, “eel”), Old High German angar (“mealworm, larva, grub”) (Modern German Engerling), Proto-Slavic *ǫgořь, Lithuanian ungurỹs. Influenced by anguis (“snake”), in the same way Ancient Greek ἔγχελῠς (énkhelŭs, “eel”) was influenced by ἔχις (ékhis, “snake”), but unfortunately no Proto-Indo-European form can be reconstructed due to similar changes in other daughter languages, commonly attributed to a taboo. Compare Finnish borrowing ankerias. === Pronunciation === anguīlla: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aŋˈɡʷiːl.la] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aŋˈɡʷil.la] anguīllā: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aŋˈɡʷiːl.laː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aŋˈɡʷil.la] === Noun === anguīlla f (genitive anguīllae); first declension eel small snake ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “anguilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “anguilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "anguilla", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “anguilla”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “anguilla”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “anguilla”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin