loligo

loligo

See also: Loligo

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Latin lōlīgō.

Noun

loligo (plural loligos)

1. A member of the Loligo genus of cephalopods; a squid.
   • 1658, Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus:

     the learned may consider the Crystalline humour of the eye in the cuttle fish and Loligo.

   • 1882, Popular Science (volume 21, number 46, October 1882, page 755)

     […] the loligos or squids, the sepias, and the argonauts or paper nautili, are among the best known of its representatives.

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Latin

Alternative forms

• lollīgō

Etymology

Unknown.[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /loːˈliː.ɡoː/, [ɫ̪oːˈlʲiːɡoː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /loˈli.ɡo/, [loˈliːɡo]

Noun

lōlīgō f (genitive lōlīginis); third declension

1. a squid
2. a cuttlefish

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lōlīgō	lōlīginēs
Genitive	lōlīginis	lōlīginum
Dative	lōlīginī	lōlīginibus
Accusative	lōlīginem	lōlīginēs
Ablative	lōlīgine	lōlīginibus
Vocative	lōlīgō	lōlīginēs

Synonyms

• (cuttlefish): sēpia
• (squid): teuthis

Descendants

• Catalan: aluda
• Galician: lura
• Portuguese: lula
• → Serbo-Croatian: lignja, lignjun
• Translingual: Loligo

References

1. Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938), “loligo”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume I, 3rd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 819

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