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Phoxinus

Phoxinus

See also: phoxinus

Translingual

Proper noun

Phoxinus m

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Cyprinidae – small fish, archetypically including the minnow.

phoxinus

phoxinus

See also: Phoxinus

Latin

Noun

phoxinus m (genitive phoxinī); second declension

  1. the common minnow
    • 1620, Friedrich Förner, Beneficia miraculosa tam vetera quam recentia virginis Deiparae Weyerensis‎, cap. iv, page 9
      [] quam auricolorium Luciorum, Phoxinorum, Gobiorum & Muſtelarum fluuiatilium []

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative phoxinus phoxinī
genitive phoxinī phoxinōrum
dative phoxinō phoxinīs
accusative phoxinum phoxinōs
ablative phoxinō phoxinīs
vocative phoxine phoxinī

Descendants