Portunus

After Latin Portunus (Portunes, Portumnes), the Roman god of harbors and ports.

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Portunus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Portunidae – certain swimming crabs.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Crustacea – subphylum; Malacostraca – class; Eumalacostraca – subclass; Eucarida – superorder; Decapoda – order; Pleocyemata – suborder; Brachyura – infraorder; Eubrachyura – section; Heterotremata – subsection; Portunoidea – superfamily; Portunidae – family; Portuninae - subfamily

• (genus): Portunus pelagicus (flower crab) - type species; Portunus anceps, Portunus sanguinolentus (three-spot swimming crab, blood-spotted swimming crab, red-spotted swimming crab), Portunus sayi (sargassum swimming crab), Portunus segnis (African blue swimming crab), Portunus trituberculatus (gazami crab), Portunus ventralis - selected other species; for other species see Portunus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Portunus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Portunus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Portunus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Portunus at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Portunus at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Portunus at World Register of Marine Species

Portunus

1. A minor Roman god, protector of harbors, also called Palaemon.

• Portunalia

• Portumnus

From an unattested adjectival form of portus seen in opportūnus and importūnus. Ultimately from portus (“port, harbour”) +‎ -nus (see -īnus). Compare lacūna.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɔrˈtuː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [porˈt̪uː.nus]

Portūnus m sg (genitive Portūnī); second declension

1. a minor Roman god, protector of harbors, also called Palaemon

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• Portūnālis
• Portūnālia

• “Portunus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Portunus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.