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English
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Noun
[edit]pyralis (plural pyralises or pyralides)
- A species of firefly, Photinus pyralis
- 1922, E.-L. Bouvier, The Psychic Life of Insects, page 9:
- As Loeb has shown by many experiments, the phototropic phenomena of animals differ not at all from those of plants, and they carry no more psychism in a polyp or in a pyralis than in a geranium or in a volvox.
- 1968, The Conservationist - Volumes 23-24, page 169:
- If you have an opportunity to experiment with Photinus pyralis, try the following: Start a male toward you by answering him properly, that is, as a pyralis female would answer him, once or twice.
- 1986, Robert W. Mitchell, Nicholas S. Thompson, Deception: Perspectives on Human and Nonhuman Deceit, →ISBN, page 114:
- When a pyralis female sees a flash of the appropriate characteristics, she waits 2 seconds and then emits her own half-second flash.
- A moth of the genus Pyralis.
- 1850, Gardeners Chronicle & New Horticulturist - Volume 10, page 277:
- This once happened in a hemp field destroyed by a pyralis, described by me in a special memoir.
- 1907, Sugar - Volume 9, page 333:
- At first there was a belief that the caterpillar was that of a pyralis like that which caused such great loss to beet growers in southern Russia, Roumania and North America.
- 1962, Memorie della Società entomologica italiana:
- What would have been the opinion of the public, seeing e.g. a butterfly and a pyralis placed in the same genus ?
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[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Ancient Greek πυραλίς (puralís).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpy.ra.lis/, [ˈpʏrälʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpi.ra.lis/, [ˈpiːrälis]
Noun
[edit]pyralis f (genitive pyralidis); third declension
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | pyralis | pyralidēs |
Genitive | pyralidis | pyralidum |
Dative | pyralidī | pyralidibus |
Accusative | pyralidem | pyralidēs |
Ablative | pyralide | pyralidibus |
Vocative | pyralis | pyralidēs |
Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /pyˈraː.lis/, [pʏˈräːlʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /piˈra.lis/, [piˈräːlis]
Adjective
[edit]pyrālis (neuter pyrāle); third-declension two-termination adjective
Declension
[edit]Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | pyrālis | pyrāle | pyrālēs | pyrālia | |
Genitive | pyrālis | pyrālium | |||
Dative | pyrālī | pyrālibus | |||
Accusative | pyrālem | pyrāle | pyrālēs pyrālīs |
pyrālia | |
Ablative | pyrālī | pyrālibus | |||
Vocative | pyrālis | pyrāle | pyrālēs | pyrālia |
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “pyralis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pyralis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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