stomachus

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek στόμαχος (stómakhos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈstɔ.ma.kʰʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈstɔː.ma.kus]

Noun

stomachus m (genitive stomachī); second declension

1. gullet, alimentary canal
2. (anatomy) stomach
3. taste or distaste (depending on context)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	stomachus	stomachī
genitive	stomachī	stomachōrum
dative	stomachō	stomachīs
accusative	stomachum	stomachōs
ablative	stomachō	stomachīs
vocative	stomache	stomachī

Descendants

• >? Italian: stomaco
• >? Piedmontese: stòmi
• → Albanian: stomak
• → Catalan: estómac
• → Galician: estómago
• → Old French: estomac (see there for further descendants)
• → Portuguese: estômago
• → Romanian: stomac, stomah
• → Spanish: estómago

References

• “stomachus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “stomachus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “stomachus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to excite a person's wrath: stomachum, bilem alicui movere