funambulus

See also: Funambulus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fūnambulus.

Noun

funambulus (plural funambuli)

  1. (obsolete) A funambulist; a tightrope walker.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for funambulus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From fūnis (“rope”) +‎ ambulō (“to walk”).

Noun

fūnambulus m (genitive fūnambulī); second declension

  1. a rope-dancer, tightrope walker; funambulist

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fūnambulus fūnambulī
Genitive fūnambulī fūnambulōrum
Dative fūnambulō fūnambulīs
Accusative fūnambulum fūnambulōs
Ablative fūnambulō fūnambulīs
Vocative fūnambule fūnambulī

Descendants
  • → Catalan: funàmbul
  • → English: funambulus
  • → French: funambule
  • → Portuguese: funâmbulo
  • → Spanish: funámbulo

References
  • “funambulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “funambulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • funambulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • “funambulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “funambulus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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