cervicornis

Translingual

Adjective

cervicornis

1. (taxonomy) having a horn like a stag, stag-horned
   • 1778, Johann Samuel Schröter, Vollständige Einleitung in die Kenntniß und Geschichte der Steine und Versteinerungen. Dritter Theil von den Versteinerungen (in German), page 463:

     Noch konnten, nach diesem Begriff, einige Eschariten unter den Milleporiten stehen, wie ich denn in der Folge, die Milleporam reteporam, und cervicornem, dorthin rechnen werde.

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   • 1741, Nova acta physico-medica academiae caesareae leopoldino-carolinae naturae curiosorum exhibentia ephemerides sive observationes historias et experimenta. Tomus octavus, page 292:

     Elegantem hanc Asteriadem copiosissime inveni supra Milleporam cervicornem Pallasii, seu supra Porum Imperati cervinum, quem ad Flustram suam Linnaeus foliaceam minus recte citaverat.

   • 1876, Jacobus Georgius Agardh, Species[,] genera et ordines algarum, seu descriptiones succinctae specierum, generum et ordinum, quibus algarum regnum constituitur. Volumen tertium: De florides curae posteriores (in Latin), page 414:

     Sub nomine Rhod. cervicornis Montagne Gr. cervicornem veram in Voy. Bonit. p. 108. descripsisse videtur, comparatis characteribus datis.

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Latin

Etymology

From cervus (“stag”) +‎ cornū (“horn”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ker.u̯iˈkor.nis/, [kɛru̯ɪˈkɔrnɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃer.viˈkor.nis/, [t͡ʃerviˈkɔrnis]

Adjective

cervicornis (neuter cervicorne); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (New Latin) having a horn like a stag, stag-horned

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	cervicornis	cervicorne		cervicornēs	cervicornia
Genitive	cervicornis			cervicornium
Dative	cervicornī			cervicornibus
Accusative	cervicornem	cervicorne		cervicornēs cervicornīs	cervicornia
Ablative	cervicornī			cervicornibus
Vocative	cervicornis	cervicorne		cervicornēs	cervicornia