clupea
See also: Clupea
Latin
Etymology 1
Unknown[1]. Not related to clupeus (“shield”).
Noun
clupea f (genitive clupeae); first declension
- allis shad
Inflection
First declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | clupea | clupeae |
| Genitive | clupeae | clupeārum |
| Dative | clupeae | clupeīs |
| Accusative | clupeam | clupeās |
| Ablative | clupeā | clupeīs |
| Vocative | clupea | clupeae |
Descendants
- Galician: xouba
- Translingual: Clupea
Noun
clupea
- nominative plural of clupeum
- accusative plural of clupeum
- vocative plural of clupeum
References
- clupea in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- clupea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- clupea in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- clupea in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
- Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938), “clupea”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 1, 3rd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 240