Translingual

Tabanus bovinus, female

Proper noun

Tabanus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Tabanidae – over 1,300 species of bloodsucking flies, including gadflies, horseflies, and breezeflies, the females of many of which are capable of inflicting a severe and painful bite; in some species, said to transmit trypanosomes.

Latin

Noun

tabānus m ‎(genitive tabānī); second declension

1. gadfly, horsefly

Derived terms

• Tabānōrum lacus

Inflection

Second declension.

Synonyms

• (gadfly, horsefly): asīlus

Descendants

References

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