haedus

Latin

Alternative forms

aedus
ēdus
hoedus

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *haidos, from earlier *xaidos, probably a loanword from a pre-Indo-European substrate language due to the fact that it cannot be derived from any known root. The only sure cognate is Proto-Germanic *gaits (“goat”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈhae̯.dus/, [ˈhäe̯d̪ʊs̠]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.dus/, [ˈɛːd̪us]

Noun

haedus m (genitive haedī); second declension

young goat, kid

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	haedus	haedī
Genitive	haedī	haedōrum
Dative	haedō	haedīs
Accusative	haedum	haedōs
Ablative	haedō	haedīs
Vocative	haede	haedī

Derived terms

Haedī
haedīnus

Descendants

Eastern Romance
- Aromanian: ed
- Megleno-Romanian: ied
- Romanian: ied
Sardinian: edu
Vulgar Latin: *haegulus
- Old Italian: eghio

References

“haedus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“haedus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
haedus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 278
Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 229

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