Polybius

Translingual

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πολύβιος (Polúbios, “Many lives”).

Proper noun

Polybius m

1. Certain swimming crabs of the Atlantic and western Mediterranean:
   1. A taxonomic genus within the family Polybiidae.
   2. A taxonomic genus within the family Portunidae.

Usage notes

• Sometimes placed in families Carcinidae or Portunidae, which, like Polybiidae, are in superfamily Portunoidea.

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; Brachyura - infraorder; Eubrachyura - section; Heterotremata - subsection; Portunoidea - superfamily; Polybiidae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Polybius henslowii - sole species

References

• Polybius (crab) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Carcinidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Portunidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Polybius at World Register of Marine Species

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Polybius, from Ancient Greek Πολύβιος (Polúbios, literally “much life, long-lived”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pəˈlɪbi.əs/

Proper noun

Polybius

1. A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Polybius, an Ancient Greek historian of the Hellenistic period.

Derived terms

• Polybian
• Polybius square

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πολύβιος (Polúbios).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /poˈly.bi.us/, [pɔˈlʲʏbiʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /poˈli.bi.us/, [poˈliːbius]

Proper noun

Polybius m sg (genitive Polybiī or Polybī); second declension

1. a male given name from Ancient Greek — famously held by:
   1. Polybius, an Ancient Greek historian of the Hellenistic period.

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Polybius
Genitive	Polybiī Polybī1
Dative	Polybiō
Accusative	Polybium
Ablative	Polybiō
Vocative	Polybī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• “Pŏlybĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Pŏly̆bĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,196.