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eunuchus

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek εὐνοῦχος (eunoûkhos).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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eunūchus m (genitive eunūchī); second declension

  1. eunuch

Declension

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Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative eunūchus eunūchī
genitive eunūchī eunūchōrum
dative eunūchō eunūchīs
accusative eunūchum eunūchōs
ablative eunūchō eunūchīs
vocative eunūche eunūchī

Descendants

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  • Catalan: eunuc
  • English: eunuch
  • French: eunuque
  • Galician: eunuco
  • Italian: eunuco
  • Occitan: eunuc
  • Portuguese: eunuco
  • Romanian: eunuc
  • Spanish: eunuco

References

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  • eunuchus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • eunuchus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • eunuchus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • eunuchus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • eunuchus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle English

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Noun

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eunuchus

  1. Alternative form of eunuk