Translingual

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Proper noun

Nycticorax m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Ardeidae – night herons.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Aves - class; Saurornithes - informal group; Ornithothoraces, Ornithurae - clade; Carinatae - subclass; Neornithes - infraclass; Neognathae - parvclass; Ciconiiformes - order; Ardeidae - family; Nycticoracinae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Nycticorax caledonicus, Nycticorax nycticorax - species

References

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

Latin

Noun

nycticorax m ‎(genitive nycticoracis); third declension

1. nightjar, bittern or similar bird

Inflection

Third declension.

Usage notes

• Often translated (from Leviticus 11: 16) as night raven:- a bird whose booming call was regarded as an omen.

References

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