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 October, Popular Science, volume 21, number 46, page 755:
      […] the loligos or squids, the sepias, and the argonauts or paper nautili, are among the best known of its representatives.

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
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