Translingual

Scolopendra subspinipes

Proper noun

Scolopendra f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Scolopendridae – certain centipedes.

Hyponyms

• (genus): Scolopendra abnormis, Scolopendra anatananarivoensis, Scolopendra canidens, Scolopendra cataracta, Scolopendra cingulata, Scolopendra clavipes, Scolopendra cretica, Scolopendra dalmatica, Scolopendra gigantea, Scolopendra heros, Scolopendra morsitans, Scolopendra oraniensis, Scolopendra polymorpha, Scolopendra subspinipes, Scolopendra valida (species)

English

Noun

scolopendra ‎(plural scolopendras)

1. (obsolete) A mythical sea-creature, reputed to be able to disgorge its bowels to dislodge any fishing-hook.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.xii:

     Spring-headed Hydraes, and sea-shouldring Whales, / Great whirlpooles, which all fishes make to flee, / Bright Scolopendraes, arm'd with siluer scales, / Mighty Monoceroses, with immeasured tayles.

2. A genus of centipedes.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin scolopendra, from Ancient Greek σκολόπενδρα ‎(skolópendra).

Noun

scolopendra f ‎(plural scolopendre)

1. scolopendra, a kind of centipede

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σκολόπενδρα ‎(skolópendra).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sko.loˈpen.dra/

Noun

scolopendra f ‎(genitive scolopendrae); first declension

1. A kind of centipede.
2. A kind of sea-fish.

Inflection

First declension.

Descendants

• Italian: scolopendra
• Romanian: scolopendră
• Spanish: escolopendra
• Translingual: Scolopendra

References

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