Dolabella

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Translingual[edit]

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Proper noun[edit]

Dolabella f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Aplysiidae – sea hares.

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From dolābella (small hatchet).

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Proper noun[edit]

Dolābella m sg (genitive Dolābellae); first declension

  1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
    1. Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella, a Roman consul

Declension[edit]

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Dolābella
Genitive Dolābellae
Dative Dolābellae
Accusative Dolābellam
Ablative Dolābellā
Vocative Dolābella

Further reading[edit]

  • Dolabella2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Dolabella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette