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addax

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin addax, apparently from an African language.

The Addax.

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Noun

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addax (plural addaxes or addax)

  1. A large African antelope (Addax nasomaculatus) with long, corkscrewing horns which lives in the desert. [from 17th c.]
    Synonyms: screwhorn antelope, white antelope
    • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, page 53:
      In her hand, the haunch of an addax, still hissing from the spit.

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Italian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Latin addax, apparently from an African language.

Noun

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addax m (invariable)

  1. addax
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Latin

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Etymology

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From an African source.

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Noun

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addax m (genitive addacis); third declension

  1. addax

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative addax addacēs
genitive addacis addacum
dative addacī addacibus
accusative addacem addacēs
ablative addace addacibus
vocative addax addacēs

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References

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