# crocodilus
## Latin
### Alternative forms

* corcodīlus (by metathesis)
* crocodillus (Late Latin)
* corcodīllus (Late Latin)

### Etymology

From Ancient Greek κροκόδειλος (krokódeilos).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /kro.koˈdiː.lus/, [krɔkɔˈd̪iːɫ̪ʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /kro.koˈdi.lus/, [krokoˈd̪iːlus]

### Noun

crocodīlus m (genitive crocodīlī); second declension
* A crocodile

#### Declension

Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | crocodīlus | crocodīlī |
| Genitive | crocodīlī | crocodīlōrum |
| Dative | crocodīlō | crocodīlīs |
| Accusative | crocodīlum | crocodīlōs |
| Ablative | crocodīlō | crocodīlīs |
| Vocative | crocodīle | crocodīlī |

#### Descendants

From a form with metathesis *coccodrīllus, and sometimes more later irregular shifts:
* Medieval Latin: cocodrillus
* Asturian: cocodrilu
* Catalan: cocodril
* Italian: coccodrillo
** → Maltese: kukkudrill
* Old French: cocodril
** Norman: crocodile
** → Middle English: cocodrill, cokadrill, cokedril
*** English: crocodile
**** → Maori: kokorotaera, karakotaera
**** → Niuean: kirokotaili
**** → Tokelauan: kolokotaila
**** → Tongan: kalokataile
**** → Welsh: crocodeil
*** Scots: cocadrille, cokadraill
* Sicilian: cuncutrigghiu, cuncutriddu, cucutrigghiu
* Spanish: cocodrilo

##### Borrowings

* → Albanian: krokodil
* → Basque: krokodilo
* → Breton: krokodil
* → Bulgarian: крокодил (krokodil)
* → Cornish: krokodil
* → Czech: krokodýl
* → Danish: krokodille
* → Estonian: krokodill
* → Faroese: krokodilla
* → Finnish: krokotiili
* → French: crocodile
** Antillean Creole: krokodil
** Mauritian Creole: krokodil
** Seychellois Creole: krokodil
** → Romanian: crocodil
** → Persian: کروکودیل (krokodil)
* → Galician: crocodilo
* → German: Krokodil
** → Hungarian: krokodil (or directly from Latin)
** → Middle Russian: крокоди́лъ (krokodíl)
*** Russian: крокоди́л (krokodíl), крокоди́лъ (krokodíl) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
**** → Bezhta: каракадил (karakadil)
**** → English: krokodil
**** → French: krokodil
**** → Ingrian: krokodila
**** → Kildin Sami: крокадил (krokadil)
** → Old Ruthenian: крокоди́лъ (krokodíl), крокоды́лъ (krokodýl), крокоды́ль (krokodýlʹ)
*** Belarusian: кракадзі́л (krakadzíl)
*** Carpathian Rusyn: крокоді́л (krokodíl)
*** Ukrainian: крокоди́л (krokodýl)
* → Irish: crogall
* → Icelandic: krókódíll
* → Kyrgyz: крокодил (krokodil)
* → Latvian: krokodils
* → Lithuanian: krokodilas
* → Luxembourgish: Krokodil
* → Macedonian: крокодил (krokodil)
* → Middle Dutch: crocodil
** Dutch: krokodil
*** Afrikaans: krokodil
* → Norwegian: krokodille
* → Occitan: crocodil
* → Polish: krokodyl
* → Portuguese: crocodilo
* → Scottish Gaelic: crogall
* → Serbo-Croatian: krokodil
* → Slovak: krokodíl
* → Swedish: krokodil
* → Slovene: krokodil
* → Tajik: крокодил (krokodil)
* → Turkmen: krokodil
* → West Frisian: krokodil
* → Yiddish: קראָקאָדיל (krokodil)

### References

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