qualum

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Probably from the same root of Proto-Slavic *košь (“basket”).[1] De Vaan finds a connection with the root of quatio (“I shake, brandish”) conceivable.[2] Perhaps related with cōlum (“strainer”).

Noun

quālum n (genitive quālī); second declension

  1. wicker basket or hamper of various purposes, especially:
    1. (winemaking) a basket press, press basket
      • c. 4th-5th century, Servius, In Vergilii Georgica commentarii:
        qualos, per quos vinum defluit, qui et ipsi a colando dicti sunt
        the press baskets, through which the wine flows, the name is from colando (cōlō (“to filter, strain”)
    2. a wool basket
    3. a fruit or harvest hamper

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative quālum quāla
genitive quālī quālōrum
dative quālō quālīs
accusative quālum quāla
ablative quālō quālīs
vocative quālum quāla

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954), “qualum”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 397
  2. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “qualus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 504

Further reading

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