epithema
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From New Latin epithema, from Ancient Greek ἐπίθεμα (epíthema, “lid, cover”).
Noun[edit]
epithema
- (zoology) A horny excrescence upon the beak of birds.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “epithema”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek ἐπίθεμα (epíthema, “a cover, column capital, poultice”).
Noun[edit]
epithema n (genitive epithematis); third declension
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “bizma”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 597
- “epithema”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “epithema”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
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