Translingual

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Proper noun

Coturnix f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Phasianidae – Old World quails.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Aves - class; Saurornithes - informal group; Ornithothoraces, Ornithurae - clades; Carinatae - subclass; Neornithes - infraclass; Neognathae - parvclass; Galliformes - order; Phasianidae - family; Perdicinae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Coturnix coromandelica, Coturnix delegorguei, Coturnix ypsilophora - species

References

• Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0691128276

Latin

Noun

cōturnīx f ‎(genitive cōturnīcis); third declension

1. quail (also used as endearingly)

Inflection

• The first syllable may also scan short as coturnīx instead of cōturnīx.

Third declension.

Descendants

References

• coturnix in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• coturnix in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “coturnix”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.