esox

Probably from Gaulish *esoks, from Proto-Celtic *esoxs (compare Irish eo (“salmon”), Welsh Welsh eog (“salmon”)); usually also compared to Ancient Greek ἴσοξ (ísox, “unknown whale-like fish”), attested only in a vocabulary list.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɛ.sɔks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛː.s̬oks]

esox m (genitive esocis); third declension

1. kind of freshwater fish

Third-declension noun.

• Translingual: Esox
• Basque: izokin
  • → Spanish: esguín

• “esox”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "esox", 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)