cuniculus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin cunīculus. === Noun === cuniculus (plural cuniculi) A burrow or low underground passage, such as a rabbit warren, mine, or catacomb. Synonym: latibulum (obsolete) A burrow in the skin made by a mite. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== == Latin == === Alternative forms === cuniculum, cuniclus, cunicolus, coniculus, conicolus === Etymology === Unknown, perhaps some Iberian or Celtiberian word + the Latin diminutive -ulus or -culus. Compare Basque untxi (“rabbit”). Attested from Varro onward. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kʊˈniː.kʊ.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kuˈniː.ku.lus] === Noun === cunīculus m (genitive cunīculī); second declension a rabbit a rabbit burrow a mine, underground tunnel or gallery ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== cunīculārium ==== Descendants ==== Borrowings === References === “cunīculus” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present === Further reading === “cuniculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “cuniculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "cuniculus", 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) “cuniculus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “cuniculus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “cuniculus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin