silure

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin silurus (a sort of river fish), from Ancient Greek σίλουρος (sílouros, a very large sort of river fish).

Noun

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silure (plural silures)

  1. A fish of the genus Silurus, such as the sheatfish; a siluroid.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for silure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

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Etymology

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From Latin silūrus, in turn from Ancient Greek.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /si.lyʁ/
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Noun

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silure m (plural silures)

  1. wels catfish (Silurus glanis)
    Synonym: silure glane

Further reading

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Latin

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Noun

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silūre

  1. vocative singular of silūrus