hamus

English

Etymology

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Latin hāmusbor.

English hamus

Borrowed from Latin hāmus (“hook, barb”).

Noun

hamus (plural hami)

1. (biology) A hook- or barb-like structure.

Latin

hāmus

Etymology

Of unknown origin. Possibly related to Proto-Germanic *hamô (“collar, harness, fishnet”). Traditionally compared to Ancient Greek χάβος (khábos, “muzzle, curved”), but De Vaan rejects the possibility of a loan due to the vowel length.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈhaː.mʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.mus]

Noun

hāmus m (genitive hāmī); second declension

1. A hook
2. A fishhook
3. The barb of an arrow

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	hāmus	hāmī
genitive	hāmī	hāmōrum
dative	hāmō	hāmīs
accusative	hāmum	hāmōs
ablative	hāmō	hāmīs
vocative	hāme	hāmī

Synonyms

• (hook): uncīnus

Derived terms

• adhāmō
• hāmātus
• hāmiformis
• hāmiōta
• hāmōsus

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian:
    • Campidanese: gamu
    • Logudorese: amu
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Corsican: ambu
    • Gallurese: amu
    • Sassarese: amu
  • Dalmatian: jam
  • Istriot: àmo
  • Italian: amo, lamo (Tuscan)
  • Neapolitan: amo
  • Sicilian: amu
  • Venetan: amo
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: am
  • Ladin: amo (Badiot)
  • Romansh: am, amp, om, omm
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Emilian: lâm, lam
  • Ligurian: lammo
  • Lombard: lam
  • Piedmontese: amun, lamun
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: ham
  • Occitan: am
  • Old French: aim, ain
    • Gallo: ain
    • Norman: ain (Jersey)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: ⇒ amocelo (via the Vulgar *hamicellus)
• Borrowings:
  • → English: hamus
  • → Interlingua: hamo
  • → Spanish: hamo (obsolete)
    • → Basque: amu

Via the Vulgar diminutive *hamiceolus:

• Gallo-Italic:
  • Old Lombard: amiçol
  • Piedmontese: amussò, amuço
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: ameçon
    • French: hameçon (latinized)
    • Gallo: ameçon
  • Old Occitan: anzol
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: anzuelu
  • Galician: anzol
  • Portuguese: anzol
  • Spanish: anzuelo

References

• “hamus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hamus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "hamus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “hamus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “hamus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 279