doris
See also: Doris
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]doris
- A sea slug.
- 1858, The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading, page 536:
- It is a doris, or sea-slug, and is about of the consistence of one of those slugs so destructive to our garden flowers, but is so much more beautiful than that creature, that, were he able to understand us, we should ask pardon for the comparison.
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek δῶρις (dôris).
Noun
[edit]dōris f (genitive dōridis); third declension
- A kind of bugloss
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | dōris | dōridēs |
| genitive | dōridis | dōridum |
| dative | dōridī | dōridibus |
| accusative | dōridem | dōridēs |
| ablative | dōride | dōridibus |
| vocative | dōris | dōridēs |
References
[edit]- doris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.