Noun: gurdus
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension: Second
Nominative
| Singular | gurdus |
| Plural | gurdī |
Genitive
| Singular | gurdī |
| Plural | gurdōrum |
Dative
| Singular | gurdō |
| Plural | gurdīs |
Accusative
| Singular | gurdum |
| Plural | gurdōs |
Ablative
| Singular | gurdō |
| Plural | gurdīs |
Vocative
| Singular | gurde |
| Plural | gurdī |
Sample Sentences
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Item in Cacomnemone: Hic est (inquit) ille gurdus, quem ego me abhinc menses duos ex Africa venientem excepisse tibi narravi. (And in (Laberius') The Forgetful Man: He is that blockhead, whom, as I told you, I met two months ago, when I was coming back from Africa.) [c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 16.7.8]
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Et gurdos, quos pro stolidis accipit vulgus, ex Hispania duxisse originem audivi. (While I have heard that gurdus, which is colloquially used in the sense of “stupid,” is derived from Spain.) [c. 95 CE, Quintilianus, Institutio oratoria 1.5.57]
Nouns inflected like gurdus
priāpismus,
scāpus,
servus,
cuneolus,
sargus,
saccus,
scarus,
scinus,
scopus,
illēgitimus,
sorbus,
sophus,
somnus,
Hispānus,
soccus,
sirpus,
siclus,
icterus,
cunīculus,
xystus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *gʷordos (“stubborn, heavy”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥dos, variant of *gʷrd-u- (“slow, heavy, tired”), though De Vaan acknowledges that the cognates point to a u-stem instead of an o-stem as in Latin. The PIE root is also uncertain. Quintilian called it a "Spanish" (possibly Iberian) word. Compare Lithuanian gurdùs, Latvian gur̃ds (“tired”), Proto-Slavic *gъ̑rdъ (“proud”), Ancient Greek βραδύς (bradús, “slow”).
Verbs referencing "gurdus"
Portuguese Nouns
gordo, Spanish Nouns
gordo, Asturian Nouns
gordu.
Translations