loligo

See also: Loligo

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Latin lōlīgō.

Noun

loligo (plural loligos)

  1. A member of the Loligo genus of cephalopods; a squid.
    • 1658, Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus:
      the learned may consider the Crystalline humour of the eye in the cuttle fish and Loligo.
    • 1882 October, Popular Science, volume 21, number 46, page 755:
      […] the loligos or squids, the sepias, and the argonauts or paper nautili, are among the best known of its representatives.

Latin

Alternative forms

  • lollīgō

Etymology

Unknown.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

lōlīgō f (genitive lōlīginis); third declension

  1. a squid
  2. a cuttlefish

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative lōlīgō lōlīginēs
genitive lōlīginis lōlīginum
dative lōlīginī lōlīginibus
accusative lōlīginem lōlīginēs
ablative lōlīgine lōlīginibus
vocative lōlīgō lōlīginēs

Synonyms

Descendants

  • Catalan: aluda
  • Galician: lura
  • Italian: loligine, lolligine
  • Portuguese: lula
  • → Serbo-Croatian: lignja, lignjun
  • Translingual: Loligo

References

  1. ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “lolligo”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 819
  • “loligo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “loligo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • loligo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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