cervicornis

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Translingual

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Adjective

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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

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Etymology

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From cervus (stag) +‎ cornū (horn).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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

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

Declension

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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