Translingual

Proper noun

Gryllus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Gryllidae – crickets.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Animalia - kingdom; Arthropoda - phylum; Hexapoda - subphylum; Insecta - class; Dicondylia - clade; Pterygota - subclass; Orthoptera - order; Ensifera - suborder; Grylloidea - superfamily; Gryllidae - family; Gryllinae - subfamily

Latin

gryllus (cricket)

Alternative forms

• grillus

Noun

gryllus m ‎(genitive gryllī); second declension

1. cricket, grasshopper
2. (art) a comic figure

Derived terms

• gryllō

Declension

Second declension.

Descendants

References

• gryllus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “gryllus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• gryllus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gryllus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray