carduus
See also: Carduus
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Probably from Proto-Indo-European *kars- (“to scratch, scrape, rub, card”). See also Sanskrit कषति (kaṣati, “scratches, rubs”), Middle Low German harsch (“hairy”), Russian короста (korosta, “scab”), Old Church Slavonic краста (krasta), Lithuanian karsiu (“to comb”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkar.du.us/, [ˈkärd̪uʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkar.du.us/, [ˈkärd̪uːs]
Noun
carduus m (genitive carduī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | carduus | carduī |
Genitive | carduī | carduōrum |
Dative | carduō | carduīs |
Accusative | carduum | carduōs |
Ablative | carduō | carduīs |
Vocative | cardue | carduī |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Italian: cardo
- Old French: (from Medieval Latin cardō)
- French: chardon
- Old Occitan: cardon (from Medieval Latin cardō)
- Old Occitan: carda f (possibly, or from *caritō, from carō (“to comb”))
- Old Galician-Portuguese:
- Old Spanish:
- Spanish: cardo
- Piedmontese: card
- Sicilian: cardu
- → Proto-West Germanic: *kardā f (see there for further descendants)
References
- “carduus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers