remulcum

From Ancient Greek ῥυμουλκέω (rhumoulkéō), from ῥῦμα (rhûma, “tow-line”) + ἕλκω (hélkō, “to drag”); for first element see ἐρύω (erúō, “to pull”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /reˈmul.kum/, [rɛˈmʊɫ.kũ]

remulcum n (genitive remulcī); second declension

1. towrope

Second declension.

remulco

• Italian: rimorchio, rimorchiare
  • → French: remorquer
• Portuguese: rebocar

• remulcum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• remulcum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• remulcum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• remulcum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• remulcum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill
• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN