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Palpus
‖
Pal′pus
,Noun.
pl.
Palpi
(#)
. [NL. See
Palp
.] (Zool.)
A feeler; especially, one of the jointed sense organs attached to the mouth organs of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and annelids;
as, the mandibular
. The palpi of male spiders serve as sexual organs. Called also palpi
, maxillary palpi
, and labial palpi
palp
. See Illust. of Arthrogastra
and Orthoptera
. Definition 2024
palpus
palpus
Latin
Noun
palpus m (genitive palpī); second declension
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | palpus | palpī |
| genitive | palpī | palpōrum |
| dative | palpō | palpīs |
| accusative | palpum | palpōs |
| ablative | palpō | palpīs |
| vocative | palpe | palpī |
References
- palpus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “palpus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.