cephalus

From the Ancient Greek κέφᾰλος (képhălos, “a species of mullet”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɛ.pʰa.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛː.fa.lus]

cephalus m (genitive cephalī); second declension

1. chub, chevin, pollard (European freshwater fish, Squalius cephalus)

Second-declension noun.

• Italian: cefalo
• Neapolitan: cefaro
• Venetan: çièvoło
• → Polish: cefal

• "cephalus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• 1 cĕphălus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “290/2”
• “cephalus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cephalus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray