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Echeneis
Echeneis
See also: echeneis
Translingual
Sucker on
Echeneis naucrates
Echeneis naucrates
Proper noun
Echeneis f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Echeneidae – the suckerfishes.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Osteichthyes - superclass; Actinopterygii - class; Neopterygii - subclass; Teleostei - infraclass; Acanthopterygii - superorder; Perciformes - order; Percoidei - suborder; Percoidea - superfamily; Echeneidae - family
echeneis
echeneis
See also: Echeneis
Latin
Noun
echenēis f (genitive echenēidis); third declension
- The suckerfish, remora
Inflection
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | echenēis | echenēidēs |
| genitive | echenēidis | echenēidum |
| dative | echenēidī | echenēidibus |
| accusative | echenēidem | echenēidēs |
| ablative | echenēide | echenēidibus |
| vocative | echenēis | echenēidēs |
References
- echeneis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- echeneis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “echeneis”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.