lurdus

Latin

Alternative forms

• lordus

Etymology

Uncertain; often suggested to be derived from lūridus (“sallow, pale”),^[1][2] perhaps influenced in meaning by Greek λορδός (lordós, “bent backward”),^[3] or Frankish *lort (“crooked, lame, clumsy”), if not a full borrowing.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈlur.dus/, [ˈɫ̪ʊrd̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlur.dus/, [ˈlurd̪us]

Adjective

lurdus (feminine lurda, neuter lurdum); first/second-declension adjective^[4]

1. (Late Latin) slow, heavy
2. (Late Latin) clumsy, stupid

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	lurdus	lurda	lurdum		lurdī	lurdae	lurda
genitive	lurdī	lurdae	lurdī		lurdōrum	lurdārum	lurdōrum
dative	lurdō	lurdae	lurdō		lurdīs
accusative	lurdum	lurdam	lurdum		lurdōs	lurdās	lurda
ablative	lurdō	lurdā	lurdō		lurdīs
vocative	lurde	lurda	lurdum		lurdī	lurdae	lurda

Descendants

• Old French: lort, lord, lourt, lourd
  • Middle French: lourd, lours, lourt
    • French: lourd
  • → Middle English: lourd
• >? Italian: lordo
• Old Occitan: lort
• >? Spanish: lerdo
  • → Portuguese: lerdo

References

1. Greimas, A.J. (1969) “lort, lord”, in Dictionnaire de l'ancien francais jusq'uau milieu du XIVe siècle (in French), Paris: Larousse, page 373
2. Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “LERDO”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, page 358
3. Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “lordo”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
4. lurdus 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)