raucus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin rāvis

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Italic *-kos

Latin -cus

Latin raucus

From rāvis (“hoarseness”) + -cus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈrau̯.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈraːu̯.kus]

Adjective

raucus (feminine rauca, neuter raucum); first/second-declension adjective

1. hoarse
2. harsh, rough, grating, husky (sound)
3. raucous

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	raucus	rauca	raucum		raucī	raucae	rauca
genitive	raucī	raucae	raucī		raucōrum	raucārum	raucōrum
dative	raucō	raucae	raucō		raucīs
accusative	raucum	raucam	raucum		raucōs	raucās	rauca
ablative	raucō	raucā	raucō		raucīs
vocative	rauce	rauca	raucum		raucī	raucae	rauca

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: roco
  • >? Sicilian: raucu
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Piedmontese: raucc, rauss, ròuss, rauc
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: roucho
  • Old French: ro
    • ⇒ French: enrouer
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: ronc (influenced by rhonchāre), rauc (Septentrional)
  • Occitan: rauc

    Gascon: arrauc, arròc

    Limousin: roche

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: rouco
    • Galician: rouco
    • Portuguese: rouco
  • Old Spanish: ronco (influenced by rhonchāre)
    • Spanish: ronco
• Borrowings:
  • → English: raucous
  • → French: rauque
  • → Italian: rauco
  • → Spanish: rauco

References

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