gerdius

== Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek γέρδιος (gérdios), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵers- (“to twist; to plait”). See also Old Armenian ծառ (caṙ, “tree”), Ancient Greek γέρρον (gérrhon, “wattle-fence”) and Old Norse kjarr (“copsewood, brush-wood, thicket”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɡɛr.di.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈd͡ʒɛr.di.us] === Noun === gerdius m (genitive gerdiī or gerdī); second declension a weaver ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). === References === “gerdius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “gerdius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.