acrostichoides
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek [Term?].
Adjective
acrostichoīdēs (neuter acrostichoīdes or acrostichoīdēs); third-declension one-termination adjective (Greek-type)
- (New Latin) resembling a leather fern (of genus Acrostichum)
Usage notes
- Used exclusively as a taxonomic epithet and thus normally in the nominative singular; other inflections may be theoretical or rarely found.
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective (Greek-type).
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | acrostichoīdēs | acrostichoīdes1 acrostichoīdēs | acrostichoīdēs | acrostichoīdia | |
| Genitive | acrostichoīdis | acrostichoīdium | |||
| Dative | acrostichoīdī | acrostichoīdibus | |||
| Accusative | acrostichoīdem | acrostichoīdes1 acrostichoīdēs | acrostichoīdēs | acrostichoīdia | |
| Ablative | acrostichoīdī | acrostichoīdibus | |||
| Vocative | acrostichoīdes1 acrostichoīdēs | acrostichoīdēs | acrostichoīdia | ||
1It is unknown if Classical Latin preserved (or would have preserved) the shortness of the original Greek short ending.