tragelaphus
See also: Tragelaphus
English
Etymology
Noun
tragelaphus (plural tragelaphi)
- A fictional animal, half goat, half stag, used by the philosopher Aristotle as an example of something that is knowable even though it does not exist.
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek τραγέλαφος (tragélaphos, “mythical goat-stag”), from τράγος (trágos, “billy goat”) + ἔλαφος (élaphos, “deer”).
Noun
tragelaphus m (genitive tragelaphī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | tragelaphus | tragelaphī |
Genitive | tragelaphī | tragelaphōrum |
Dative | tragelaphō | tragelaphīs |
Accusative | tragelaphum | tragelaphōs |
Ablative | tragelaphō | tragelaphīs |
Vocative | tragelaphe | tragelaphī |
Descendants
- Translingual: Tragelaphus
References
- “tragelaphus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tragelaphus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- tragelaphus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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