subulcus

Latin

Etymology

From sus (“pig, swine”) +‎ -bulcus (“-herd: tender of, carer of”).^[1] Compare Ancient Greek σῠβώτης (subṓtēs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /suˈbul.kus/, [s̠ʊˈbʊɫ̪kʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /suˈbul.kus/, [suˈbulkus]

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

References

1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “-bulcus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 77

Further reading

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