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Histrionicus
Histrionicus
See also: histrionicus
Translingual
Proper noun
Histrionicus m
- A taxonomic genus within the family Anatidae – the harlequin duck.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Aves - class; Ornithothoraces, Ornithurae - clades; Carinatae - subclass; Neornithes - infraclass; Neognathae - parvclass; Anseriformes - order; Anatidae - family; Merginae - subfamily
Hyponyms
- (genus): Histrionicus histrionicus - species
histrionicus
histrionicus
See also: Histrionicus
Latin
Adjective
histriōnicus m (feminine histriōnica, neuter histriōnicum); third declension
- histrionic (pertaining to actors or acting)
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | histriōnicus | histriōnica | histriōnicum | histriōnicī | histriōnicae | histriōnica | |
| genitive | histriōnicī | histriōnicae | histriōnicī | histriōnicōrum | histriōnicārum | histriōnicōrum | |
| dative | histriōnicō | histriōnicō | histriōnicīs | ||||
| accusative | histriōnicum | histriōnicam | histriōnicum | histriōnicōs | histriōnicās | histriōnica | |
| ablative | histriōnicō | histriōnicā | histriōnicō | histriōnicīs | |||
| vocative | histriōnice | histriōnica | histriōnicum | histriōnicī | histriōnicae | histriōnica | |
Synonyms
- (pertaining to actors): histriōnālis
Related terms
References
- histrionicus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “histrionicus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.