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Webster 1913 Edition

Palinurus

Palˊinu′rus

,

Noun.

[So called from L.

Palinurus

, the pilot of Aeneas.]

(Naut.)

An instrument for obtaining directly, without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of the compass.

Definition 2025

Palinurus

Palinurus

Translingual

Proper noun

Palinurus m

A taxonomic genus within the family Palinuridae – spiny lobsters.

Derived terms

Latin

Proper noun

Palinūrus m ‎(genitive Palinūrī); second declension

A male given name, character in the play Curculio of Plautus.

References

Palinurus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Palinurus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.