Translingual

Cuniculus paca

Proper noun

Cuniculus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Cuniculidae – the pacas.

Synonyms

• (genus): Agouti, Caelogenus, Caelogenys, Coelogenus, Coelogenys, Mamcoelogenysus, Osteopera, Paca, Stictomys

Hypernyms

• (genus): Mammalia - class; Theria - subclass; Placentalia - infraclass; Rodentia - order; Hystricomorpha - suborder; Hystricognathi - infraorder; Caviomorpha - infraorder; Chinchilloidea - superfamily; Cuniculidae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Cuniculus hernandezi, Cuniculus paca (lowland paca), Cuniculus taczanowskii (mountain paca) (species)

English

Noun

cuniculus ‎(plural cuniculi)

1. A burrow or low underground passage
2. A burrow in the skin made by a mite

Latin

Alternative forms

• *cuniclus (Vulgar Latin)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κύνικλος ‎(kúniklos), probably of Iberian or Celtiberian origin; compare Basque untxi ‎(“rabbit”), Mozarabic conchair ‎(“greyhound”). The original meaning "burrow" adapted to the rabbit or vice versa.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kuˈniː.ku.lus/, [kʊˈniː.kʊ.ɫʊs]

Noun

cunīculus m ‎(genitive cunīculī); second declension

1. a rabbit
2. a rabbit burrow
3. a mine, subterranean tunnel or gallery

Inflection

Second declension.

Related terms

• cunīculārium

Descendants

See also

• cuneus
• cunnus

References

• cuniculus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cuniculus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• CUNICULUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cuniculus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to make mines, subterraneous passages: cuniculos agere (B. G. 3. 21)
    
• cuniculus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cuniculus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin