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Webster 1828 Edition


Anguilla

ANGUIL'LA

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Noun.
[L. an eel.]
In zoology, an eel; also the name of a Mediterranean fish used for food, called also hospetus and atherina.

Definition 2024


Anguilla

Anguilla

See also: anguilla

Translingual

Anguilla anguilla, the European eel

Etymology

From Latin anguilla (eel)

Proper noun

Anguilla f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Anguillidae – a type of eel.

Hypernyms


English

Proper noun

Anguilla

  1. A British overseas territory in the Caribbean.

Translations

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Italian

Proper noun

Anguilla ?

  1. Anguilla

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Norman

Proper noun

Anguilla

  1. (Jersey) Anguilla

Portuguese

Proper noun

Anguilla f

  1. Alternative form of Anguila

anguilla

anguilla

See also: Anguilla

Italian

Noun

anguilla f (plural anguille)

  1. eel

Anagrams


Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂engʷʰ- (water-worm, eel). Cognate with Ancient Greek ἔγχελυς (énkhelus, eel), Old High German angar (mealworm, larva, grub) (Modern German Engerling), Proto-Slavic *ǫgorjь, Lithuanian ungurỹs.

Influenced by anguis (snake), in the same way Ancient Greek ἔγχελῡς (énkhelūs, eel) was influenced by ἔχις (ékhis, snake), but unfortunately no Proto-Indo-European form can be reconstructed due to similar changes in other daughter languages, commonly attributed to a taboo. Cognate with Old Prussian angurgis and Albanian ngjalë. Compare Finnish borrowing ankerias.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /anˈɡʷil.la/, [aŋˈɡᶣɪl.la]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /anˈɡwil.la/, [aŋˈɡwil.la]

Noun

anguilla f (genitive anguillae); first declension

  1. eel
  2. vocative singular of anguilla
Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative anguilla anguillae
genitive anguillae anguillārum
dative anguillae anguillīs
accusative anguillam anguillās
ablative anguillā anguillīs
vocative anguilla anguillae
Descendants

Pronunciation 2

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /anˈɡʷil.laː/, [aŋˈɡᶣɪl.laː]

Noun

anguillā

  1. ablative singular of anguilla

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