helluo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin helluo (“glutton, squanderer”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛljuːəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛljuoʊ/
• Hyphenation: hel‧luo

Noun

helluo (plural helluos)

1. (obsolete) A glutton, a gormandizer.

Latin

Etymology

From helluārī +‎ -ō (suffix forming masculine agent nouns, nicknames, and other designations); helluārī is the present active infinitive of helluor (“to be a glutton, gormandize”), further etymology unknown.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈhel.lu.oː/, [ˈhɛlːʲuoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈel.lu.o/, [ˈɛlːuo]

Noun

helluō m (genitive helluōnis); third declension

1. glutton

   Synonyms: lurcō, cataphagās, comedō, edō, dēgulātor, gāneō, gluttō, gulō, gumia, mandō, mandūcō, phagō, polyphagus, catīllō

2. squanderer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	helluō	helluōnēs
genitive	helluōnis	helluōnum
dative	helluōnī	helluōnibus
accusative	helluōnem	helluōnēs
ablative	helluōne	helluōnibus
vocative	helluō	helluōnēs

Derived terms

• helluātiō
• helluō librōrum
• helluor

References

• “helluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• helluo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “helluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press