strombus
See also: Strombus
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek στρόμβος (strómbos, “shell, conch, snail”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
strombus (plural strombuses or strombi)
- (zoology) Any of the genus Strombus of marine gastropods in which the shell has the outer lip dilated into a broad wing.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “strombus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek στρόμβος (strómbos, “shell, conch, snail”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈstrom.bus/, [ˈs̠t̪rɔmbʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈstrom.bus/, [ˈst̪rɔmbus]
Noun
strombus m (genitive strombī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | strombus | strombī |
Genitive | strombī | strombōrum |
Dative | strombō | strombīs |
Accusative | strombum | strombōs |
Ablative | strombō | strombīs |
Vocative | strombe | strombī |
References
- “strombus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- strombus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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