Translingual

Wikispecies

Proper noun

Pagurus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Paguridae.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Crustacea - subphylum, Malacostraca - class, Eumalacostraca - subclass, Eucarida - superorder, Decapoda - order, Pleocyemata - suborder, Anomura - infraorder, Paguroidea - superfamily, Paguridae - family

Hyponyms

• For the numerous species see Pagurus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Noun

pagūrus m ‎(genitive pagūrī); second declension

1. A kind of crab.
   • c. 77-79 AD, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 9.53

     cancrorum genera carabi astaci maeae paguri heracleotici leones et alia ignobiliora

     There are various kinds of crabs, known as carabi, astaci, maeae, paguri, heracleotici, lions, and others of less note.

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• English: pagurian
• French: pagure
• Italian: paguro
• Spanish: paguro

References

• pagurus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “pagurus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.