different between aqueduct vs cuniculus

English

Alternative forms

• aquaeduct
• aquæduct (archaic)

Etymology

Adapted from the Latin aquaeductus (“conveyance of water”), from aqua (“water”) + d?c? (“I lead”, “I bring”); compare the French aqueduc.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æk.w??d?kt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æk.w??d?kt/
• (US, see note) IPA^(key): /??k.w??d?kt/

Usage notes

The newer IPA^(key): /??k-/ pronunciation (prescriptive based on the Latin etymology) has been objected to by some commentators.

Noun

aqueduct (plural aqueducts)

1. An artificial channel that is constructed to convey water from one location to another.
2. A structure carrying water over a river or depression, especially in regards to ancient aqueducts.
3. (anatomy) A structure conveying fluid, such as the cerebral aqueduct or vestibular aqueduct.

Translations

References

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cun?culus.

Noun

cuniculus (plural cuniculi)

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

Latin

Etymology

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

Attested beginning from Cicero and Varro.

Alternative forms

• cuniculum, cuniclus, cunicolus, coniculus, conicolus

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ku?ni?.ku.lus/, [k??ni?k????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ku?ni.ku.lus/, [ku?ni?kulus]

Noun

cun?culus m (genitive cun?cul?, feminine cun?cula); second declension

1. a rabbit
2. a rabbit burrow
   1. a mine, underground tunnel or gallery

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Related terms

• cun?cul?rium

Descendants

• Latin: cun?clus (see there for further descendants)
• ? English: cuniculus
• ? Italian: cunicolo
• ? Portuguese: cunículo

See also

• cuneus
• cunnus

References

• “cun?culus” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present

Further reading

• 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)
• cuniculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• 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