arrugia

Latin

Etymology

Unknown.[1] Lewis and Short suggest that it is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rewk-, making it cognate with runcō and Ancient Greek ὀρύσσω (orússō). Adams suggests it could be of Punic origin.[2]

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /arˈru.ɡi.a/, [ärˈrʊɡiä]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /arˈru.d͡ʒi.a/, [ärˈruːd͡ʒiä]

Noun

arrugia f (genitive arrugiae); first declension

A shaft and pit in a goldmine
- c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.70:
  cuniculis per magna spatia actis cavantur montes lucernarum ad lumina; eadem mensura vigiliarum est, multisque mensibus non cernitur dies. arrugias id genus vocant.
- c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.77:
  aurum arrugia quaesitum non coquitur, sed statim suum est.
- 447 CE, Cassius Felix, De medicina 28.3, (gesentera = γῆς έντερα):
  gesentera id est vermiculos de arrugia

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	arrugia	arrugiae
Genitive	arrugiae	arrugiārum
Dative	arrugiae	arrugiīs
Accusative	arrugiam	arrugiās
Ablative	arrugiā	arrugiīs
Vocative	arrugia	arrugiae

Descendants

Italian: roggia
Spanish: arroyo
Portuguese: arroio

References

Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 33
J. N. Adams (2007 December 13) The Regional Diversification of Latin 200 BC - AD 600, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 545

Further reading

“arrugia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
arrugia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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