Translingual

Mustela putorius

Proper noun

Mustela f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Mustelidae – the weasels.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Mammalia - class; Trechnotheria - subclass; Zatheria - infraclass; Theria - supercohort; Eutheria - cohort; Epitheria - magnorder; Laurasiatheria - superorder; Carnivora - order; Caniformia - suborder; Mustelidae - family; Mustelinae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Mustela africana, Mustela altaica, Mustela erminea, Mustela eversmannii, Mustela felipei, Mustela frenata, Mustela kathiah, Mustela lutreola, Mustela lutreolina, Mustela macrodon, Mustela nigripes, Mustela nivalis, Mustela nudipes, Mustela putorius, Mustela sibirica, Mustela strigidorsa, Mustela vison ( ⇒ Neovison vison) - species

Interlingua

Noun

mustela ‎(plural mustelas)

1. weasel

Latin

Etymology

From mūs.

Alternative forms

• mūstella

Noun

mūstēla f ‎(genitive mūstēlae); first declension

1. weasel

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

• mūstēlīnus

Descendants

• Romansch: mustaila

References

• mustela in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mustela in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “mustela”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• mustela in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray