lamantin

From French lamantin.

lamantin (plural lamantins)

1. (archaic) The manatee.

From lamenti, an alteration of Spanish manatí, a Cariban word, by association with lamenter (“lament, bewail”), because of the animal's cry.

• IPA^(key): /la.mɑ̃.tɛ̃/

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lamantin m (plural lamantins)

1. manatee

   Synonym: vache de mer

• → Armenian: լամանտին (lamantin)
• → Corsican: lamantinu
• → Dutch: lamantijn
• → English: lamantin
• → Italian: lamantino
• → Romanian: lamantin
• → Russian: ламанти́н (lamantín)

• “lamantin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• laminant

Borrowed from French lamantin, an alteration of Spanish manatí.

lamantin m (plural lamantini)

1. manatee (any of several plant-eating marine mammals, of family Trichechidae)