lanius

From Old Latin lacnius, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂k- (“to tear, rend”). Cognates include Latin lacer (“torn, mangled”), lacinia (“edge, flap”) and Ancient Greek λᾰκίζω (lakízō, “to tear to pieces”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.ni.us/, [ˈɫ̪äniʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.ni.us/, [ˈläːnius]

lanius m (genitive laniī or lanī); second declension

1. butcher

   Synonyms: carnifex, laniātor, laniō, macellarius

Second-declension noun.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “lanius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lanius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lanius 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)
• lanius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette