Palaemon

Translingual

Etymology

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Proper noun

Palaemon m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Palaemonidae – certain shrimps, some called grass shrimp.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Crustacea - subphylum; Malacostraca - class; Eumalacostraca - subclass; Eucarida - superorder; Decapoda - order; Pleocyemata – suborder; Caridea – infraorder; Palaemonoidea – superfamily; Palaemonidae – family; Palaemoninae – subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Palaemon adspersus - type species; Palaemon pugio (daggerblade grass shrimp), Palaemon serratus (common prawn), Palaemon varians - selected other species

References

• Palaemon (crustacean) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Palaemon on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Palaemonetes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Παλαίμων (Palaímōn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /paˈlae̯.moːn/, [päˈɫ̪äe̯moːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paˈle.mon/, [päˈlɛːmon]
• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /paˈlae̯.mon/, [päˈɫ̪äe̯mɔn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paˈle.mon/, [päˈlɛːmon]

Proper noun

Palaemō̆n m sg (genitive Palaemō̆nis or Palaemō̆nos); third declension

1. Palaemon, a sea god who was the son of Athamus and Ino

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant), singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Palaemō̆n
Genitive	Palaemō̆nis Palaemō̆nos
Dative	Palaemō̆nī
Accusative	Palaemō̆na
Ablative	Palaemō̆ne
Vocative	Palaemō̆n

References

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