antlia

Borrowed from Latin antlia (“pump”), from Ancient Greek ἀντλία (antlía).

antlia (plural antliae)

1. (archaic, zoology) The spiral tubular proboscis of butterflies.

• “antlia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Altina, talian, Talian, nalita, Natali, Latina, latina, Latian

From Ancient Greek ἀντλία (antlía, “bilge-water, filth”), from ἀντλέω (antléō, “to bale out bilge-water, to bale the ship, to draw water”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈant.li.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈan̪t̪.li.a]

antlia f (genitive antliae); first declension

1. a foot-operated pump for drawing water
2. (zoology) the body part of an insect used to suck up plant juices

First-declension noun.

• “antlia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• antlia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “antlia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “antlia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin