asilus

== Gothic == === Romanization === asilus romanization of 𐌰𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌿𐍃 == Latin == === Etymology === Unknown. De Vaan (2008) considers it a borrowing given the initial as- instead of a rhotacised ar- or a regularly degeminated ās- following a long vowel (< *āss-/āts-). However, the present form would in fact be a regular outcome of *ass-ī/ei-los under the "mamilla-rule", as also in pusillus, ofella. Compare asinus, likewise of obscure origin. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aˈsiː.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈs̬iː.lus] === Noun === asīlus m (genitive asīlī); second declension (archaic or poetic) gadfly, horsefly ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Synonyms ==== (gadfly, horsefly): tabānus ==== Descendants ==== === References === De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN “asilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “asilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “asilus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers