nautilus

See also: Nautilus

English

Nautilus

Etymology

From Latin nautilus, from Ancient Greek ναυτίλος (nautílos, “paper nautilus, sailor”).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnɔː.tɪ.ləs/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ.tɪ.ləs/, /ˈnɑ.tɪ.ləs/
Audio (US) (file)

Noun

nautilus (plural nautiluses or nautili)

A marine mollusc, of the family Nautilidae native to the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean, which has tentacles and a spiral shell with a series of air-filled chambers, of which Nautilus is the type genus.
- 1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, p 44
  He was still prepared to go on collecting all that life could offer, like a chambered nautilus patiently adding new cells to its slowly expanding spiral.
A kind of diving bell that sinks or rises by means of compressed air.

Synonyms

chambered nautilus

Derived terms

paper nautilus

Translations

marine mollusc of the family Nautilidae

Arabic: نُوتِيّ‎ m (nūtiyy)
Armenian: նավախեցի (navaxecʿi)
Bengali: নটিলাস (nṭilas)
Breton: naotil m
Bulgarian: наутилус m (nautilus)
Catalan: nàutil m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 鸚鵡螺 (jing¹ mou⁵ lo^4-2)
Mandarin: 鸚鵡螺／鹦鹉螺 (zh) (yīngwǔluó)
Czech: loděnka (cs) f
Danish: nautil c
Dutch: nautilus (nl) m, poliepslak f
Esperanto: naŭtilo
Finnish: helmivene (fi)
French: nautile (fr) m
Galician: náutilo m
Georgian: ნაუტილუსი (nauṭilusi)
German: Nautilus (de) m, Perlboot n
Greek: ναυτίλος (el) m (naftílos)
Hindi: नौटिलस (nauṭilas)
Icelandic: snekkja f
Ido: nautilo (io)
Indonesian: nautilus (id)
Irish: nátalas m
Italian: nautilo (it) m
Japanese: オウムガイ (ja) (ōmugai), 鸚鵡貝 (ja) (おうむがい, ōmugai)
Korean: 노틸러스 (notilleoseu)
Macedonian: наути́лус m (nautílus)
Navajo: łóóʼ bitsʼaʼí bigaanłání
Norwegian:
Bokmål: perlebåt m
Nynorsk: perlebåt m
Palauan: kedarm
Portuguese: náutilo m
Romanian: nautil (ro) m
Russian: наути́лус (ru) m (nautílus), кора́блик (ru) m (koráblik)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: нау̀тилус m, индијска лађица f
Roman: naùtilus (sh) m, indijska lađica f
Slovak: lodenka f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: nawtilus m
Spanish: nautilo m
Swedish: pärlbåt c
Ternate: bika
Thai: หอยงวงช้าง (hŏi nguang cháang)
Turkish: notilus
Ukrainian: наути́лус m (nautýlus), навти́лус m (navtýlus), кора́блик m (koráblyk)
Welsh: nawtilws m, cragen Bedr f

References

Nautilidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Latin

nautilus (paper nautilus)

Alternative forms

nautilos

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ναυτίλος (nautílos, “nautilus, sailor”); see naval.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈnau̯.ti.lus/, [ˈnäu̯t̪ɪɫ̪ʊs̠]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnau̯.ti.lus/, [ˈnäːu̯t̪ilus]
Audio (Classical) (file)

Noun

nautilus m (genitive nautilī); second declension

paper nautilus, argonaut (genus Argonauta)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	nautilus	nautilī
Genitive	nautilī	nautilōrum
Dative	nautilō	nautilīs
Accusative	nautilum	nautilōs
Ablative	nautilō	nautilīs
Vocative	nautile	nautilī

Related terms

nauticus

Descendants

English: nautilus
Translingual: Nautilus

References

“nautilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
nautilus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Romanian

Noun

nautilus m (plural nautiluși)

Alternative form of nautil

Declension

Declension of nautilus

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) nautilus	nautilusul	(niște) nautiluși	nautilușii
genitive/dative	(unui) nautilus	nautilusului	(unor) nautiluși	nautilușilor
vocative	nautilusule		nautilușilor