Translingual

Proper noun

Sorex m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Soricidae – the red-toothed shrews.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Mammalia - class; Trechnotheria - subclass; Zatheria - infraclass; Theria - supercohort; Placentalia - cohort; Soricomorpha - order; Soricidae - family; Soricinae - subfamily; Soricini - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Sorex araneus - type species
  • See Sorex on Wikipedia.Wikipedia for the very numerous species

Latin

Noun

sorex m (genitive soricis)

1. shrew, shrewmouse

Inflection

Third declension.

Derived terms

• sōricīnus

Descendants

References

• sorex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sorex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• SOREX in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “sorex”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.