antiae
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin antiae (“forelock”).
Noun
- (zoology) The two projecting feathered angles of the forehead of some birds; the frontal points.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “antiae”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos.
Noun
antiae f pl (genitive antiārum); first declension (plural only)
Declension
First-declension noun, plural only.
| Case | Plural |
|---|---|
| Nominative | antiae |
| Genitive | antiārum |
| Dative | antiīs |
| Accusative | antiās |
| Ablative | antiīs |
| Vocative | antiae |
References
- “antiae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press