locusta

Noun

 * 1)  The spikelet or flower cluster of grasses

Etymology
, of uncertain origin. Doublet of the inherited.

Noun

 * 1) locust

Etymology
The origin is, length of the first vowel varies. According to De Vaan, the only word similar in form and meaning is and “they could be cognate words in the language from which Latin borrowed these forms”. Pokorny connects and  with 🇨🇬, ,  and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, deriving all from 🇨🇬, explaining  as “equipped with joints”. This is considered unconvincing by De Vaan.

Pronunciation

 * Note: in Late Latin hexameter poetry, the vowel normally scans short, in contrast to the personal name where it scans long.
 * Note: in Late Latin hexameter poetry, the vowel normally scans short, in contrast to the personal name where it scans long.

Noun

 * 1) a grasshopper or locust
 * 2) * 2015, Tuomo Pekkanen, Ingentes greges locustarum in Russia meridionali., Nuntii Latini 7.8.2015:
 * "la"

- Ingentēs gregēs lō̆custārum regiōnem Stavropolis in Russiā merīdiōnālī invāsērunt.


 * 1) a crustacean,  a kind of lobster

Descendants

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