curculio

Borrowed from translingual Curculio, from Latin curculiō (“weevil”).

• IPA^(key): /kɜː(ɹ)ˈkjuːliəʊ/

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curculio (plural curculios)

1. Any of the genus Curculio of weevils.

   Synonyms: acorn weevil, nut weevil

• plum curculio

• “curculio”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• gurgulio

Unknown. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, curve, turn”),^[1] thus related to Latin carcer, cancer and curvus, which see for more cognates. However, it may instead be of substrate origin.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kʊrˈkʊ.li.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kurˈkuː.li.o]

curculiō m (genitive curculiōnis); third declension

1. weevil

Third-declension noun.

See also gurguliō.

• “curculio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "curculio", 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)
• “curculio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “curculio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers