lamantin
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French lamantin.
Noun
lamantin (plural lamantins)
- The manatee.
French
Etymology
From lamenti, an alteration of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish manatí, a (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 229: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "sai-car" is not valid. See WT:LOL. word, by association with lamenter "lament, bewail", because of the animal's cry.
Pronunciation
Noun
lamantin m (plural lamantins)
Synonyms
Anagrams
Descendants
- → Armenian: լամանտին (lamantin)
- → Dutch: lamantijn
- → English: lamantin
- → Italian: lamantino
- → Romanian: lamantin
- → Russian: ламантин (lamantin)
Further reading
- “lamantin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French lamantin, an alteration of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish manatí.
Noun
lamantin m (plural lamantini)
- manatee (any of several plant-eating marine mammals, of family Trichechidae)
Declension
Declension of lamantin
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) lamantin | lamantinul | (niște) lamantini | lamantinii |
| genitive/dative | (unui) lamantin | lamantinului | (unor) lamantini | lamantinilor |
| vocative | lamantinule | lamantinilor | ||
Categories:
- English terms derived from French
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Dugongs and manatees
- French terms derived from Spanish
- French 3-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- fr:Dugongs and manatees
- Romanian terms borrowed from French
- Romanian terms derived from French
- Romanian terms derived from Spanish
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian countable nouns
- Romanian masculine nouns
- ro:Mammals