Translingual

Lepus capensis

Etymology

Latin lepus ‎(“hare”)

Proper noun

Lepus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Leporidae – the hares and jackrabbits.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Mammalia - class; Trechnotheria - subclass; Zatheria - infraclass; Theria - supercohort; Placentalia - cohort; Lagomorpha - order; Leporidae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Lepus (Eulagos), Lepus (Indolagus), Lepus (Lepus), Lepus (Macrotolagus), Lepus (Poecilolagus), Lepus (Proeulagus), Lepus (Sabanalagus), Lepus (Sinolagus), Lepus (Tarimolagus) - subgenera
  • Lepus timidus - type species; Lepus californicus, Lepus capensis, Lepus europaeus - selected species

English

Proper noun

Lepus

1. (astronomy) A winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a rabbit. It lies south of the constellation Orion.

Derived terms

• Leporis

Translations

Anagrams

• pules
• pulse

Spanish

Proper noun

Lepus ?

1. (astronomy) Lepus (winter constellation of the northern sky)

Latin

lepus (a hare)

Noun

lepus m ‎(genitive leporis); third declension

1. a hare
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.100

     et lepus inpavidus mediis erravit in arvis

     and hares wandered, unafraid, among the fields

   Sextus videt leporem.‎ ― Sextus sees the hare.

2. a poisonous sea fish colored like the hare
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.3

     Non sunt minus mira quae de lepore marino traduntur.

     No less wonderful, too, are the particulars which we find stated relative to the sea-hare.

3. (astronomy) the constellation Lepus
   • Hyginus, De Astronomia

     Leporis autem hanc historiam memoriae prodiderunt.

     The following story of the hare has been recorded.

Inflection

Third declension.

Coordinate terms

• (hare): cunīculus, dasypūs

Derived terms

• leporārius
• leporīnus
• lepusculus

Descendants

References

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

Lithuanian

Adjective

lepùs m ‎(feminine lepì, stress pattern 4)

1. fastidious, spoilt

   Jis lepus ir visada galvoja tik apie save

   He is so fastidious and always thinking only about himself.