hyaena
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
hyaena (plural hyaenas or hyaenae)
- Alternative spelling of hyena
Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek ὕαινα (húaina).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /hyˈae̯.na/, [hyˈäe̯nä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /iˈe.na/, [iˈɛːnä]
Noun[edit]
hyaena f (genitive hyaenae); first declension
- a hyena
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | hyaena | hyaenae |
| Genitive | hyaenae | hyaenārum |
| Dative | hyaenae | hyaenīs |
| Accusative | hyaenam | hyaenās |
| Ablative | hyaenā | hyaenīs |
| Vocative | hyaena | hyaenae |
Synonyms[edit]
References[edit]
- “hyaena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “hyaena”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- hyaena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Categories:
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- en:Hyaenids
- Latin terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Latin 3-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin first declension nouns
- Latin feminine nouns in the first declension
- Latin terms spelled with Y
- Latin feminine nouns
- la:Hyaenids