opilio

== English == === Noun === opilio (plural opilios) The snow crab Chionoecetes opilio. == Esperanto == === Etymology === From New Latin Opiliones, from Latin ōpiliō. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /opiˈlio/ Rhymes: -io Syllabification: o‧pi‧li‧o === Noun === opilio (accusative singular opilion, plural opilioj, accusative plural opiliojn) daddy longlegs, harvestman == Latin == === Alternative forms === ūpiliō ovīliō === Etymology === Ultimately equivalent to ovis (“sheep”) + *piliō (uncertain meaning: “herd”, “driver”?), the latter component perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to drive”), but not entirely inherited. The variants likely point to either dialectal influence or borrowings from other Italic languages; ū- in ūpiliō in particular looks to be Osco-Umbrian. Could be derived from a Proto-Italic compound such as *owi-polos. See cognates at Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis (“sheep”). === Noun === ōpiliō m (genitive ōpiliōnis); third declension shepherd ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. === References === === Further reading === “opilio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “opilio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "opilio", 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) “opilio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “opilio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers