helluo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin helluo (“glutton, squanderer”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

helluo (plural helluos)

  1. (obsolete) A glutton, a gormandizer.

References
  1. “helluo, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2008.

Latin

Etymology

From helluārī +‎ -ō (suffix forming masculine agent nouns, nicknames, and other designations);[1] helluārī is the present active infinitive of helluor (“to be a glutton, gormandize”), further etymology unknown.

Pronunciation

Noun

helluō m (genitive helluōnis); third declension

  1. glutton
    Synonyms: lurcō, cataphagās, comedō, edō, dēgulātor, gāneō, gluttō, gulō, gumia, mandō, mandūcō, phagō, polyphagus, catīllō
  2. squanderer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative helluō helluōnēs
Genitive helluōnis helluōnum
Dative helluōnī helluōnibus
Accusative helluōnem helluōnēs
Ablative helluōne helluōnibus
Vocative helluō helluōnēs

Derived terms

References
  1. Compare “helluo, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2008.
  • “helluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • helluo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “helluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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