botellus

Latin

Etymology

From botulus +‎ -lus (diminutive suffix).

Noun

botellus m (genitive botellī); second declension

1. (rare) a small sausage

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	botellus	botellī
Genitive	botellī	botellōrum
Dative	botellō	botellīs
Accusative	botellum	botellōs
Ablative	botellō	botellīs
Vocative	botelle	botellī

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: budello
    • → Alemannic German: Büdel
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: budiel
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: budèl
    • Ligurian: bêlo
    • Lombard: budèl
    • Piedmontese: buel, biel
  • Venetan: bueło, buvel
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: bouêl
  • Old French: boiel, boel, bouel, boial, bouyau, boyel
    • Middle French: bouel
      • French: boyau
        • → English: boyau
      • → English: bowel
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: budell
  • Gascon: budèth, bodèth
  • Occitan: budèl, budèu, budeu
• Ibero-Romance: (cases of unexpected /t/ perhaps reflect influence from botija or similar)
  • Aragonese: budiello, bodillo, budillo
  • Asturian: botiellu
  • Galician: botelo, butelo
  • Portuguese: butelo
  • Spanish: botillo

References

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