addax

From French addax, from Arabic أبو عدس (ʔabū ʕadas, literally “father of the lentil”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.daks/

addax (plural addaxes or addax)

1. A large African antelope (Addax nasomaculatus) with long, corkscrewing horns which lives in the desert. [from 17th c.]

   Synonyms: screwhorn antelope, white antelope

   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, page 53:

     In her hand, the haunch of an addax, still hissing from the spit.

• pygarg

Unadapted borrowing from Latin addax, apparently from an African language.

addax m (invariable)

1. addax

• antilope dalle corna a vite

From an African source.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈad.daks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈad̪.d̪aks]

addax m (genitive addacis); third declension

1. addax

Third-declension noun.

• pȳgargus

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