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Noctua
Noctua
See also: noctua
Translingual
Proper noun
Noctua f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Noctuidae – the yellow underwing moths.
Hyponyms
- (genus): Noctua cataphanes, Noctua comes, Noctua craccae, Noctua dilucida, Noctua fimbriata, Noctua genistae, Noctua interjecta, Noctua interposita, Noctua janthe, Noctua janthina, Noctua noacki, Noctua orbona, Noctua peponis, Noctua procax, Noctua pronuba, Noctua saucia, Noctua socrus, Noctua spectrum, Noctua tertia, Noctua variegata, Noctua viciae, Noctua warreni
noctua
noctua
See also: Noctua
Latin
Noun
noctua f (genitive noctuae); first declension
- owl (small)
Inflection
First declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | noctua | noctuae |
| genitive | noctuae | noctuārum |
| dative | noctuae | noctuīs |
| accusative | noctuam | noctuās |
| ablative | noctuā | noctuīs |
| vocative | noctua | noctuae |
Descendants
- Translingual: Noctua
References
- noctua in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- noctua in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “noctua”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.