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Phoxinus
Phoxinus
See also: phoxinus
Translingual
Proper noun
Phoxinus m
- A taxonomic genus within the family Cyprinidae – small fish, archetypically including the minnow.
phoxinus
phoxinus
See also: Phoxinus
Latin
Noun
phoxinus m (genitive phoxinī); second declension
- the common minnow
- 1620, Friedrich Förner, Beneficia miraculosa tam vetera quam recentia virginis Deiparae Weyerensis, cap. iv, page 9
- […] quam auricolorium Luciorum, Phoxinorum, Gobiorum & Muſtelarum fluuiatilium […]
- 1620, Friedrich Förner, Beneficia miraculosa tam vetera quam recentia virginis Deiparae Weyerensis, cap. iv, page 9
Inflection
Second declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | phoxinus | phoxinī |
genitive | phoxinī | phoxinōrum |
dative | phoxinō | phoxinīs |
accusative | phoxinum | phoxinōs |
ablative | phoxinō | phoxinīs |
vocative | phoxine | phoxinī |
Descendants
- Translingual: Phoxinus