Translingual

Lagopus lagopus

Wikispecies

Proper noun

Lagopus f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Phasianidae – the ptarmigans.

Hypernyms

• (subfamily): Aves - class; Saurornithes - informal group; Ornithothoraces, Ornithurae - clades; Carinatae - subclass; Neornithes - infraclass; Neognathae - parvclass; Galliformes - order; Phasianidae - family; Tetraoninae - subfamily

References

• Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0691128276

English

Noun

lagopus ‎(plural lagopodes)

1. (obsolete) The ptarmigan (which bird was so called because its feet resemble those of a hare).

References

• “†Lago·pus” listed on page 28 of volume VI, part I (L, M) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1908]
    †Lago·pus. Obs. [a. L. lagōpūs, Gr. λαγώπους, f. λαγώς hare + πούς foot.] A bird with a foot resembling that of a hare; the ptarmigan. [¶] 1693 Sir T. P. Blount Nat. Hist. 385 Some..Birds..live upon the highest tops of the Alps, and that all the winter too..as..the Lagopus among birds. 1773 Barrington in Phil. Trans. LXIII. 224 The Lagopus, of which M. de Buffon gives an engraving, is in its winter plumage.
• “†laˈgopus” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λαγώπους ‎(lagṓpous), from λαγώς ‎(lagṓs, “hare”) + πούς ‎(poús, “foot”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /laˈɡoː.puːs/

Noun

lagōpūs f ‎(genitive lagopodis); third declension

1. ptarmigan (a bird)
2. hare's-foot (a herb)

Inflection

Third declension.

References

• lagopus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press