ingluvies

English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

ingluvies

  1. (anatomy) The crop, or craw, of birds.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for ingluvies in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Latin

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (throat)[1]. Compare Latin gula (throat), gluttiō (I gulp down), Russian глотка (glotka, throat) and Persian گلو (throat).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /inˈɡlu.u̯i.eːs/, [ɪŋˈɡɫ̪uː̯ieːs̠]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /inˈɡlu.vi.es/, [iŋˈɡluːvies]

Noun

ingluviēs f (genitive ingluviēī); fifth declension

  1. (anatomy) the crop of birds
  2. gluttony, voraciousness

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ingluviēs ingluviēs
Genitive ingluviēī ingluviērum
Dative ingluviēī ingluviēbus
Accusative ingluviem ingluviēs
Ablative ingluviē ingluviēbus
Vocative ingluviēs ingluviēs

Descendants

  • English: ingluvies
  • Spanish: ingluvie
  • Italian: gobbio, ingluvie

References

  • ingluvies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ingluvies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959), gel-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 364-365
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