curculio

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from translingual Curculio, from Latin curculiō (“weevil”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kɜː(ɹ)ˈkjuːliəʊ/ === Noun === curculio (plural curculios) Any of the genus Curculio of weevils. Synonyms: acorn weevil, nut weevil ==== Derived terms ==== plum curculio ==== Translations ==== === References === “curculio”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. == Latin == === Alternative forms === gurgulio === Etymology === Unknown. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, curve, turn”), thus related to Latin carcer, cancer and curvus, which see for more cognates. However, it may instead be of substrate origin. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kʊrˈkʊ.li.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kurˈkuː.li.o] === Noun === curculiō m (genitive curculiōnis); third declension weevil ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== See also gurguliō. === References === “curculio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "curculio", 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) “curculio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “curculio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers