Translingual

Glis glis

Proper noun

Glis m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Gliridae – the edible dormouse.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Mammalia - class; Trechnotheria - subclass; Zatheria - infraclass; Theria - supercohort; Placentalia - cohort; Rodentia - order; Sciuromorpha - suborder; Sciuridae - family; Gliridae - family; Glirinae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Glis glis - sole known extant species

Latin

Noun

glīs m ‎(genitive glīris); third declension

1. dormouse

Inflection

Third declension i-stem.

Descendants

Related terms

• glirarium

References

• glis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• GLIS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “glis”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.