loligo

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Etymology[edit]

From Latin lōlīgō.

Noun[edit]

loligo (plural loligos)

  1. A member of the Loligo genus of cephalopods; a squid.
    • 1658, Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus:
      the learned may consider the Crystalline humour of the eye in the cuttle fish and Loligo.
    • 1882 October, Popular Science, volume 21, number 46, page 755:
      [] the loligos or squids, the sepias, and the argonauts or paper nautili, are among the best known of its representatives.

Latin[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unknown.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

lōlīgō f (genitive lōlīginis); third declension

  1. a squid
  2. a cuttlefish

Declension[edit]

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lōlīgō lōlīginēs
Genitive lōlīginis lōlīginum
Dative lōlīginī lōlīginibus
Accusative lōlīginem lōlīginēs
Ablative lōlīgine lōlīginibus
Vocative lōlīgō lōlīginēs

Synonyms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Catalan: aluda
  • Galician: lura
  • Portuguese: lula
  • Serbo-Croatian: lignja, lignjun
  • Translingual: Loligo

References[edit]

  1. ^ Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938), “loligo”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume I, 3rd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 819
  • loligo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • loligo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • loligo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette