cuniculus

Borrowed from Latin cunīculus.

cuniculus (plural cuniculi)

1. a burrow or low underground passage
2. a burrow in the skin made by a mite

• *cuniclus (Vulgar Latin)

From Ancient Greek κόνικλος (kóniklos), probably of Iberian or Celtiberian origin; compare Basque untxi (“rabbit”), Mozarabic conchair (“greyhound”). The original meaning “burrow” adapted to the rabbit or vice versa.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kuˈniː.ku.lus/, [kʊˈniː.kʊ.ɫʊs]

cunīculus m (genitive cunīculī); second declension

1. rabbit
2. rabbit burrow
3. mine, subterranean tunnel or gallery
   • 2015, Tuomo Pekkanen, Numerus fugitivorum in dies crescit. , Nuntii Latini 7.8.2015:

     Greges migratorum, qui diversis viis ex Africa vel Asia in Europam venerunt, in proximitatem urbis Caleti (Calais) convenerunt, unde brevissima est in Britanniam per cuniculum traiectio.

     Groups of migrants, coming into Europe by various routes from Africa and Asia, came together near the city of Calais, where it is but a brief passage to Britain through the tunnel.

Second declension.

• cunīculārium

• Vulgar Latin: *cuniclus
  • Italian: coniglio
  • Mozarabic: qonélyo
  • Lombard: cunìch
  • Navarro-Aragonese: [Term?]
    • Aragonese: coniello
  • Old French: connil, conil, connin
    • → Alemannic German: Chüngel
    • → Cornish: konyn
    • → Irish: coinín
    • → Manx: conning
    • → Middle Dutch: conin, conijn
      • Dutch: konijn
        • Afrikaans: konyn
        • → Papiamentu: konènchi (from the diminutive)
      • Limburgish: knien
      • West Flemish: konyn
    • → Middle English: coni, konyng, conynge, cunning, conig
      • English: cony, coney, cunny, connie
      • Scots: kinnen, kyunnen, connie
      • → Middle Welsh: [Term?]
        • Welsh: cwning, cwnig
    • → Middle Low German: kanīn
      • German Low German: Kanien
      • → Danish: kanin
      • → Faroese: kanin
      • → German: Kanin
      • → Icelandic: kanína
      • → Norwegian: kanin
      • → Swedish: kanin
        • → Finnish: kaniini, kani
      • → Rhine Franconian: Kning
      • → West Frisian: knyn
      • ⇒ Middle Low German: kanīnken, kanīneken
        • German Low German: Kninken, Kanickelgen, Karnickelgen
          • → German: Karnickel
        • → German: Kaninchen
          • → Romansch: canign
        • → Luxembourgish: Kanéngchen
    • → Scottish Gaelic: coineanach, coinean
  • Old Leonese: [Term?]
    • Asturian: conexu, coneyu
    • Leonese: cuneyu
    • Mirandese: coneilho
  • Old Portuguese: cõello
    • Galician: coello
    • Portuguese: coelho
      • Kabuverdianu: kuedju
      • → Javanese: truwèlu
        • → Indonesian: terwelu
      • → Malay: kuilu
        • Indonesian: kuilu
      • → Tetum: koellu
  • Old Spanish: [Term?]
    • Ladino: konejo
    • Spanish: conejo
      • → Cebuano: koneho
      • → Papiamentu: koneu
      • → Quechua: kunu
      • → Tagalog: kuneho
  • Old Occitan: [Term?]
    • Catalan: conill
    • Occitan: conilh
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Romansch: cunigl, cunegl
  • Sardinian: conígiu, conígliu, coníliu, conillu, cunidhu, cunixu
  • Sicilian: cunigghiu, cunigliu
  • Venetian: cunicio, conicio, cunic, conéjo, cunin, cunel
  • → Breton: konikl
  • → Estonian: küülik
• → English: cuniculus

• cuneus
• cunnus

• cuniculus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cuniculus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cuniculus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cuniculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to make mines, subterraneous passages: cuniculos agere (B. G. 3. 21)
    
• cuniculus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cuniculus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin