Ophiusa

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Ophiusa f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Erebidae – certain moths.

• Ophiussa

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὀφιούσσα (Ophioússa).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔ.pʰiˈuː.sa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [o.fiˈuː.s̬a]

Ophiūsa f sg (genitive Ophiūsae); first declension

1. The name of several islands

First-declension noun, singular only.

• Ophiūsius

• “Ŏphĭūsa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ophiusa”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Ophiusa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.