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Webster 1913 Edition
Asilus
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A-si′lus
,Noun.
[L., a gadfly.]
(Zool.)
A genus of large and voracious two-winged flies, including the bee killer and robber fly.
Definition 2024
asilus
asilus
Latin
Noun
asīlus m (genitive asīlī); second declension
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | asīlus | asīlī |
| genitive | asīlī | asīlōrum |
| dative | asīlō | asīlīs |
| accusative | asīlum | asīlōs |
| ablative | asīlō | asīlīs |
| vocative | asīle | asīlī |
Synonyms
- (gadfly, horsefly): tabānus
Descendants
- Italian: assillo
References
- asilus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- asilus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- asilus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers