nautilus

See also: Nautilus

English

Nautilus

Etymology

From Latin nautilus, from Ancient Greek ναυτίλος (nautílos, “paper nautilus, sailor”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnɔː.tɪ.ləs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ.tɪ.ləs/, /ˈnɑ.tɪ.ləs/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: nau‧ti‧lus

Noun

nautilus (plural nautiluses or nautili)

1. A marine mollusc, of the family Nautilidae native to the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean, which has tentacles and a spiral shell with a series of air-filled chambers, of which Nautilus is the type genus.
   • 1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 44:

     He was still prepared to go on collecting all that life could offer, like a chambered nautilus patiently adding new cells to its slowly expanding spiral.

2. A kind of diving bell that sinks or rises by means of compressed air.
3. (inexact) A paper nautilus (actually an octopus).

Synonyms

• chambered nautilus

Hypernyms

• cephalopod

Derived terms

• nautiliform
• nautilite
• nautiloid
• paper nautilus
• pearly nautilus

Related terms

• nautical

Translations

marine mollusc of the family Nautilidae

• Arabic: نُوتِيّ m (nūtiyy)
• Armenian: նավախեցի (navaxecʻi)
• Bengali: নটিলাস (noṭilaś)
• Breton: naotil m
• Bulgarian: наутилус m (nautilus)
• Catalan: nàutil m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鸚鵡螺 / 鹦鹉螺 (jing¹ mou⁵ lo^4-2)

  Mandarin: 鸚鵡螺 / 鹦鹉螺 (zh) (yīngwǔluó)

• Czech: loděnka (cs) f
• Danish: nautil c
• Dutch: nautilus (nl) m, poliepslak f
• Esperanto: naŭtilo
• Finnish: helmivene (fi)
• French: nautile (fr) m
• Galician: náutilo m
• Georgian: ნაუტილუსი (nauṭilusi)
• German: Nautilus (de) m, Perlboot n
• Greek: ναυτίλος (el) m (naftílos)
• Hindi: नौटिलस (nauṭilas)
• Icelandic: snekkja f
• Ido: nautilo (io)
• Indonesian: nautilus (id)
• Irish: nátalas m
• Italian: nautilo (it) m
• Japanese: 鸚鵡貝 (ja) (おうむがい, ōmugai), オウムガイ (ja) (ōmugai)
• Korean: 앵무조개 (aengmujogae), 노틸러스 (notilleoseu)
• Macedonian: наути́лус m (nautílus)
• Navajo: łóóʼ bitsʼaʼí bigaanłání
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: perlebåt m

  Nynorsk: perlebåt m

• Palauan: kedarm
• Polish: łodzik m, nautilus (pl) m
• Portuguese: náutilo (pt) m
• Romanian: nautil (ro) m
• Russian: наути́лус (ru) m (nautílus), кора́блик (ru) m (koráblik)
• Samoan: fuiono
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: нау̀тилус m, индијска лађица f

  Latin: naùtilus (sh) m, indijska lađica f

• Slovak: lodenka f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: nawtilus m

• Spanish: nautilo (es) m
• Swedish: pärlbåt c
• Ternate: bika
• Thai: หอยงวงช้าง (hŏi nguang cháang)
• Turkish: notilus
• Ukrainian: наути́лус m (nautýlus), навти́лус m (navtýlus), кора́блик m (koráblyk)
• Vietnamese: ốc anh vũ
• Welsh: nawtilws m, cragen Bedr f

References

• Nautilidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Latin

nautilus (paper nautilus)

Alternative forms

• nautilos

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ναυτίλος (nautílos, “nautilus, sailor”); see naval.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnau̯.tɪ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnaːu̯.ti.lus]

Noun

nautilus m (genitive nautilī); second declension

1. paper nautilus, argonaut (genus Argonauta)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	nautilus	nautilī
genitive	nautilī	nautilōrum
dative	nautilō	nautilīs
accusative	nautilum	nautilōs
ablative	nautilō	nautilīs
vocative	nautile	nautilī

Related terms

• nauticus

Descendants

• Catalan: nàutil
• English: nautilus
• French: nautile
• Italian: nautilo
• Portuguese: náutilo
• Romanian: nautil
• Spanish: nautilo
• Translingual: Nautilus

References

• “nautilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nautilus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Noun

nautilus m (plural nautiluși)

1. alternative form of nautil

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	nautilus	nautilusul		nautiluși	nautilușii
genitive-dative	nautilus	nautilusului		nautiluși	nautilușilor
vocative	nautilusule			nautilușilor