Translingual

Myrtis fanny

Proper noun

Myrtis f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Trochilidae – the purple-collared woodstar.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Animalia - kingdom; Chordata - phylum; Aves - class; Saurornithes - informal group; Ornithothoraces, Ornithurae - clades; Carinatae - subclass; Neornithes - infraclass; Neognathae - parvclass; Apodiformes - order; Trochilidae - family; Trochilinae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Myrtis fanny - sole species

References

• Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0691128276

Latin

Noun

myrtīs

1. dative plural of myrtus
2. ablative plural of myrtus

References

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