opilio

English

Noun

opilio (plural opilios)

  1. The snow crab Chionoecetes opilio.

Esperanto

Etymology

From New Latin Opiliones, from Latin ōpiliō.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [opiˈlio]
  • Rhymes: -io
  • Hyphenation: o‧pi‧li‧o

Noun

opilio (accusative singular opilion, plural opilioj, accusative plural opiliojn)

  1. daddy longlegs, harvestman

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis (“sheep”) + Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to drive”).[1]

Noun

ōpiliō m (genitive ōpiliōnis); third declension

  1. shepherd

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ōpiliō ōpiliōnēs
Genitive ōpiliōnis ōpiliōnum
Dative ōpiliōnī ōpiliōnibus
Accusative ōpiliōnem ōpiliōnēs
Ablative ōpiliōne ōpiliōnibus
Vocative ōpiliō ōpiliōnēs

References
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “ōpiliō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 429

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’s 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
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