Posidonia
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See also: posidonia
Translingual
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Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Proper noun
[edit]Posidonia f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Posidoniaceae – seagrasses.
Hypernyms
[edit]- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina - subphylum; "Angiospermae" - superclass; Magnoliopsida - class; Lilianae - superorder; Alismatales - order; Posidoniaceae - family
Hyponyms
[edit]- (genus): Posidonia oceanica - type species
See also
[edit]References
[edit]Posidonia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Posidonia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Posidonia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Posidonia at Tropicos
- Posidonia at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Posidonia at The Plant List
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ποσειδώνια (Poseidṓnia).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /po.siːˈdoː.ni.a/, [pɔs̠iːˈd̪oːniä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /po.siˈdo.ni.a/, [pos̬iˈd̪ɔːniä]
Proper noun
[edit]Posīdōnia f sg (genitive Posīdōniae); first declension
- Synonym of Paestum (an ancient Greek city in Magna Graecia, on the coast of present-day Campania in southern Italy)
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Posīdōnia |
Genitive | Posīdōniae |
Dative | Posīdōniae |
Accusative | Posīdōniam |
Ablative | Posīdōniā |
Vocative | Posīdōnia |
Locative | Posīdōniae |
References
[edit]- “Pŏsīdōnĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Pŏsīdōnĭa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,205.
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