grupus
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Italian gruppo, itself from Vulgar Latin *cruppus, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“lump, group, body, crop”). Compare French groupe, Spanish grupo, English group.
Pronunciation
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈɡru.pus/, [ˈɡruːpus]
Noun
grupus m (genitive grupūs); fourth declension
- (Renaissance Latin, New Latin) group
- 1400-1500, anonymous author, Arte de tocar el laúd, page 343:
- Primus grupus post Alif in ipso instrumento est semythonum. Secundus grupus respondet ipsi Alif per thonum.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1989, Carlos Ibáñez, Rodrigo Fernández, Catálogo de murciélagos de las colecciones del Museo Nacional de Ciencias (in English), page 1:
- A careful study of the different grupus could make possible some other names like Rhinolopnus carpetanus, R.f.obscurus, Pipistrellus p […]
- 1635, Bartolomé Bravo, Thesaurus verborum, ac phrasium, ad orationem ex Hispana Latinam efficiendam & locupletandam:
- […] Grunnio, Gryllus, Gryphs-phis, Grupus, Gummi, Gutta, Guttur […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | grupus | grupūs |
| Genitive | grupūs | grupuum |
| Dative | grupuī | grupibus |
| Accusative | grupum | grupūs |
| Ablative | grupū | grupibus |
| Vocative | grupus | grupūs |
References
- grupus 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)
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