Rosmarus
Translingual
[edit]Etymology
[edit]New Latin, Latinized from Old Norse rosmhvalr (“walrus”), from rosm (“red, red-brown”) + hvalr (“whale”). For the first element see Proto-Germanic *rustaz, though likely influenced by hross (“horse”); alternatively, from Finnish mursu. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk rossmål and Danish rosmer/rosmar.
Proper noun
[edit]Rosmarus m
- (obsolete) A taxonomic genus within the family Odobenidae – synonym of Odobenus.
Hypernyms
[edit]- (obsolete genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – supercohort; Eutheria – infraclass; Carnivora – order; Pinnipedia – division or suborder
Hyponyms
[edit]- (obsolete genus): Rosmarus arcticus (now Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus), Rosmarus indicus, Rosmarus morsus, Rosmarus virginianus – species
References
[edit]- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “Rosmarus”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Odobenus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Odobenus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies - Miller, John & Louise (2014): Walrus
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200929150221/https://neologisms.rice.edu/index.php?a=term&d=1&t=18674
- https://web.archive.org/web/20181115204130/http://www.viking.no/the-viking-heritage/the-viking-linguistic-heritage/v/
- Guus Kroonen, “Reflections on the o/zero-Ablaut in the Germanic Iterative Verbs”, in The Indo-European Verb: Proceedings of the Conference of the Society for Indo-European Studies, Los Angeles, 13-15 September 2010, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2012
