botulus

== Latin == === Etymology === Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet- (“swelling”), borrowed through an Osco-Umbrian language; compare Proto-Germanic *kweþuz (“belly, womb”) and German Kuttel (“chitterlings”), Latin beccus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbɔ.tʊ.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbɔː.tu.lus] === Noun === botulus m (genitive botulī); second declension sausage, black pudding ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== botellus botulīnus ==== Descendants ==== === References === “botulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "botulus", 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) “botulus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “botulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers