Translingual

Proper noun

Scomber m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Scombridae – certain of the true mackerels.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Osteichthyes - superclass; Actinopterygii - class; Neopterygii - subclass; Teleostei - infraclass; Acanthopterygii - superorder; Perciformes - order; Scombroidei - suborder; Scombridae - family; Scombrinae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Scomber scombrus (Atlantic mackerel), Scomber japonicus (chub mackerel), Scomber australasicus (blue mackerel), Scomber colias (Atlantic chub mackerel)

Latin

Noun

scomber m ‎(genitive scombri); second declension

1. mackerel

Inflection

Second declension, nominative singular in -er.

¹May also be scombre.

Descendants

• Italian: sgombro
• Russian: скумбрия ‎(skumbrija)
• Spanish: escombro

References

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