Translingual

Proper noun

Callithrix f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Cebidae – several types of marmosets.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Primates - order, Haplorrhini - suborder, Simiiformes - infraorder, Platyrrhini - parvorder, Cebidae - family; Callithrichinae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Callithrix jacchus - type species
• For the other species see Callithrix on Wikispecies.Wikispecies and Callithrix on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Noun

callithrix f ‎(genitive callithrichis); third declension

1. waterwort (Asplenium trichomanes)
2. An Ethiopian monkey (or some such animal)

Inflection

• Note: genitive is also sometimes callithrichos, callitrichos or callitrichis

Third declension.

References

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