Translingual

Pelecanus conspicillatus

Proper noun

Pelecanus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Pelecanidae – the pelicans.

Hyponyms

• (genus): Pelecanus conspicillatus (Australian pelican), Pelecanus crispus (Dalmatian pelican), Pelecanus erythrorhynchos (American white pelican), Pelecanus occidentalis (Brown pelican), Pelecanus onocrotalus (great white pelican), Pelecanus philippensis (spot-billed pelican), Pelecanus rufescens (pink-backed pelican), Pelecanus thagus (Peruvian pelican) (species)

References

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

Latin

pelecānī (pelicans)

Alternative forms

• pelicānus

Noun

pelecānus m ‎(genitive pelecānī); second declension

1. pelican

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

References

• pelecanus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• PELECANUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “pelecanus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.