Latin

Noun

hāmus m ‎(genitive hāmī); second declension

1. A hook
2. A fishhook
3. The barb of an arrow

Inflection

Second declension.

Synonyms

• (hook): uncīnus

Derived terms

• adhāmō
• hāmātus
• hāmiformis
• hāmiōta

Descendants

References

• hamus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• hamus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• HAMUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “hamus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• hamus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 279