hemionus

English

Noun

hemionus

1. Obsolete form of hemione.

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “hemionus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἡμῐ́ονος (hēmíonos, “half ass, mule”).

Noun

hēmionus m (genitive hēmionī); second declension

1. (New Latin) half-mule

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	hēmionus	hēmionī
Genitive	hēmionī	hēmionōrum
Dative	hēmionō	hēmionīs
Accusative	hēmionum	hēmionōs
Ablative	hēmionō	hēmionīs
Vocative	hēmione	hēmionī

Descendants

• Translingual: Equus hemionus
• English: hemionus, hemione