Translingual

Buprestis novemmaculata

Proper noun

Buprestis f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Buprestidae – some of the jewel beetles.

Hyponyms

• (genus): Buprestis (Buprestis), Buprestis (Cypriacis), Buprestis (Knulliobuprestis), Buprestis (Pseudyamina), Buprestis (Yamina) (subgenera)
  • Buprestis adjecta, Buprestis aetnensis, Buprestis alemanica, Buprestis apicipennis, Buprestis apricans, Buprestis atlas, Buprestis auratostriata, Buprestis aurora, Buprestis aurulenta, Buprestis bergevini, Buprestis bertheloti, Buprestis bilyi, Buprestis biplagiata, Buprestis carabuho, Buprestis catoxantha, Buprestis concinna, Buprestis confluenta, Buprestis connexa, Buprestis consularis, Buprestis costipennis, Buprestis cubensis, Buprestis cupressi, Buprestis cuprostriata, Buprestis dalmatina, Buprestis decemspilota, Buprestis decipiens, Buprestis decora, Buprestis deleta, Buprestis douei, Buprestis dumonti, Buprestis esakii, Buprestis fairmairei, Buprestis fasciata, Buprestis flavoangulata, Buprestis florissantensis, Buprestis fremontiae, Buprestis gibbsii, Buprestis gracilis, Buprestis griseomicans, Buprestis guttatipennis, Buprestis haardti, Buprestis haemorrhoidalis, Buprestis hauboldi, Buprestis hauseri, Buprestis heydeni, Buprestis hilaris, Buprestis hispaniolae, Buprestis humeralis, Buprestis intricata, Buprestis kashimirensis, Buprestis kruegeri, Buprestis kudiensis, Buprestis laeviventris, Buprestis langii, Buprestis lebisi, Buprestis lineata, Buprestis lyrata, Buprestis maculativentris, Buprestis maculipennis, Buprestis magica, Buprestis margineaurata, Buprestis maura, Buprestis megistrache, Buprestis metallescens, Buprestis meyeri, Buprestis mirabilis, Buprestis novemmaculata, Buprestis nutalli, Buprestis octoguttata, Buprestis panamensis, Buprestis parmaculativentris, Buprestis picta, Buprestis piliventris, Buprestis pongraczi, Buprestis pristina, Buprestis prospera, Buprestis redempta, Buprestis rufipes, Buprestis rustica, Buprestis rusticana, Buprestis salisburyensis, Buprestis salomonii, Buprestis samanthae, Buprestis sanguinea, Buprestis saxigena, Buprestis scudderi, Buprestis senecta, Buprestis seorsus, Buprestis sepulta, Buprestis seyfriedi, Buprestis splendens, Buprestis sterbai, Buprestis striata, Buprestis strigosa, Buprestis subornata, Buprestis sulcicollis, Buprestis tertiaria, Buprestis tincta, Buprestis tradita, Buprestis transversepicta, Buprestis ventralis, Buprestis viridistriatus, Buprestis viridisuturalis, Buprestis zayasi (species)

Latin

Noun

būprestis f ‎(genitive būprestis); third declension

1. a beetle, which being eaten with the grass caused a swelling in cattle
2. a kind of plant, perhaps the bupleurum rotundifolium, thought by some to be an aphrodisiac

Inflection

Third declension i-stem.

Descendants

• Translingual: Buprestis

References

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