elacaten

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἠλᾰκᾰτήν (ēlakatḗn).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /eːˈla.ka.teːn/, [eːˈɫ̪äkät̪eːn]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈla.ka.ten/, [eˈläːkät̪en]

Noun

ēlacatēn m (genitive ēlacatēnos); third declension

a large sea fish, a tuna
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Pliny the Elder to this entry?)
- 8th century CE, Paulus Diaconus, Karl Otfried Müller, editor, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 76:
  
  E l a c a t e n a genus salsamenti, quod appellatur vulgo melandrea.
  (please add an English translation of this quote)

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ēlacatēn	ēlacatēnes
Genitive	ēlacatēnos	ēlacatēnum
Dative	ēlacatēnī	ēlacatēnibus
Accusative	ēlacatēna	ēlacatēnas
Ablative	ēlacatēne	ēlacatēnibus
Vocative	ēlacatēn	ēlacatēnes

Synonyms

ēlacatae f pl

References

“ēlăcătēnes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ēlăcătēna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “579/1”
“ēlacatēna” on page 597/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

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