addax

See also: Addax

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin addax, apparently from an African language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.daks/

Noun

addax (plural addaxes or addax)

1. A large African antelope (), with long horns, that lives in the desert. [from 17th c.]
   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 53:

     In her hand, the haunch of an addax, still hissing from the spit.

Translations

Addax nasomaculatus

• Irish: adacs m
• Italian: antilope dalle corna a vite f, addax (it) f
• Latin: pȳgargus m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: adax m
• Romanian: addax (ro) n, adax n

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Italian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin addax, apparently from an African language.

Noun

addax m (uncountable)

1. addax

Related terms

• antilope dalle corna a vite

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Latin

Etymology

From an African source.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈad.daks/, [ˈäd̪ːäks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈad.daks/, [ˈäd̪ːäks]

Noun

addax m (genitive addacis); third declension

1. addax

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	addax	addacēs
Genitive	addacis	addacum
Dative	addacī	addacibus
Accusative	addacem	addacēs
Ablative	addace	addacibus
Vocative	addax	addacēs

Synonyms

• pȳgargus

References

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