anguilla

See also: Anguilla

Italian

Etymology

From Latin anguilla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anˈɡwil.la/
• Rhymes: -illa
• Hyphenation: an‧guìl‧la

Noun

anguilla f (plural anguille)

1. eel

Hyponyms

• capitone

Anagrams

• allungai

Latin

Etymology

Derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂engʷʰ- (“water-worm, eel”). Cognate with Old Prussian angurgis and Albanian ngjalë, Ancient Greek ἔγχελυς (énkhelus, “eel”), Old High German angar (“mealworm, larva, grub”) (Modern German Engerling), Proto-Slavic *ǫgořь, Lithuanian ungurỹs.

Influenced by anguis (“snake”), in the same way Ancient Greek ἔγχελῠς (énkhelŭs, “eel”) was influenced by ἔχις (ékhis, “snake”), but unfortunately no Proto-Indo-European form can be reconstructed due to similar changes in other daughter languages, commonly attributed to a taboo. Compare Finnish borrowing ankerias.

Pronunciation

• anguīlla: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aŋˈɡʷiːl.la]
• anguīlla: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aŋˈɡʷil.la]
• anguīllā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aŋˈɡʷiːl.laː]
• anguīllā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aŋˈɡʷil.la]

Noun

anguīlla f (genitive anguīllae); first declension

1. eel
2. small snake

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	anguīlla	anguīllae
genitive	anguīllae	anguīllārum
dative	anguīllae	anguīllīs
accusative	anguīllam	anguīllās
ablative	anguīllā	anguīllīs
vocative	anguīlla	anguīllae

Descendants

• Aragonese: enguila
• Asturian: anguila
• Catalan: anguila
• Dalmatian: anǧola
• French: anguille
• Friulian: anzile
• Italian: anguilla
• Occitan: anguila
• Old Galician-Portuguese: anguia
  • Galician: anguía
  • Portuguese: enguia
• Old Spanish: anguila
  • Ladino: anguila
  • Spanish: anguila
• Piedmontese: anguila
• Romanian: anghilă
• Sardinian: ambidha, ammidha, anghidha, anguidha
• Sicilian: anciḍḍa
• Translingual: Anguilla
• → Basque: aingira
• → Serbo-Croatian: jègulja / јѐгуља
• ⇒ Basque: angula
  • → Catalan: angula
  • → Spanish: angula

References

• “anguilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “anguilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "anguilla", 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)
• “anguilla”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “anguilla”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “anguilla”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin