subulcus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *sew-?

Proto-Indo-European *sewH-?

Proto-Indo-European *suH-

Proto-Italic *sūs

Latin sus

Latin -bulcus

Latin subulcus

From sus (“pig, swine”) + -bulcus (“-herd: tender of, carer of”). Compare Ancient Greek σῠβώτης (sŭbṓtēs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sʊˈbʊɫ.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [suˈbul.kus]

Noun

subulcus m (genitive subulcī); second declension

1. swineherd, a farmer or farmhand who raises and cares for pigs

   ...nec subulci, nec bubulci...

   ...neither swineherds nor cowherds...

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	subulcus	subulcī
genitive	subulcī	subulcōrum
dative	subulcō	subulcīs
accusative	subulcum	subulcōs
ablative	subulcō	subulcīs
vocative	subulce	subulcī

Synonyms

• porcarius

Further reading

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