Hafnia

See also: hafnia

Translingual

Hafnia alvei

Etymology

From Latin Hafnia (“Copenhagen”).

Proper noun

Hafnia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Hafniaceae – the single species Hafnia alvei, a gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that is commensal in humans and normally harmless.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Prokaryota – superkingdom; Bacteria – kingdom; Negibacteria – subkingdom; Pseudomonadota – phylum; Gammaproteobacteria – class; Enterobacterales – order; Enterobacteriaceae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Hafnia alvei (selected species)

Further reading

• Hafnia (bacterium) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Hafnia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Hafnia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Hafnia at the Catalogue of Life 

Latin

Alternative forms

• Haunia
• Havnia

Etymology

From Late Old Norse hǫfn (“harbour, port”) or Old Danish hafn (“harbour, port”); from Kaupmannahǫfn.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈhaf.ni.a/, [ˈhäfniä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈaf.ni.a/, [ˈäfniä]

Proper noun

Hafnia f sg (genitive Hafniae); first declension

1. Copenhagen

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Hafnia
genitive	Hafniae
dative	Hafniae
accusative	Hafniam
ablative	Hafniā
vocative	Hafnia
locative	Hafniae

Derived terms

• Hafniensis