hordeolus

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive from hordeum (“barley”) +‎ -olus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /horˈde.o.lus/, [hɔrˈd̪eɔɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /orˈde.o.lus/, [orˈd̪ɛːolus]

Noun

hordeolus m (genitive hordeolī); second declension

1. a stye in the eye

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	hordeolus	hordeolī
genitive	hordeolī	hordeolōrum
dative	hordeolō	hordeolīs
accusative	hordeolum	hordeolōs
ablative	hordeolō	hordeolīs
vocative	hordeole	hordeolī

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: ulcior
  • Romanian: urcior
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: orzaiolo
• North-Italian:
  • Emilian: orzeu, orzeul
  • Ligurian: orzeu
  • Lombard: orzeu, orzeul
  • Piedmontese: orzeu, orzeul, orgieul, varzeul
  • Venetan: orxoło
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: uçol, uixol, urçol, urjol, vurçol, ⇒ Catalan: mussol
  • Old French: orgeoul
    • ⇒ French: orgelet
  • Gascon: auriòu, ursòu
  • Occitan:

    Languedocien: orjòl, ardiòl

    Limousin: orjòu

    Provençal: orjòu

    Vivaro-Alpine: orjòu

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: orizó, orzón
  • Old Spanish: orçuelo
    • Spanish: orzuelo
• Borrowings:
  • → Catalan: ordèol
  • → Portuguese: hordéolo

References

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