glossopetra

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek γλωσσοπέτρα (glōssopétra), from γλῶσσᾰ (glôssă, “tongue”) + πέτρα (pétra, “stone”).

Noun

glōssopetra f (genitive glōssopetrae); first declension

1. A precious stone resembling the human tongue, now known to be a fossil shark tooth.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	glōssopetra	glōssopetrae
genitive	glōssopetrae	glōssopetrārum
dative	glōssopetrae	glōssopetrīs
accusative	glōssopetram	glōssopetrās
ablative	glōssopetrā	glōssopetrīs
vocative	glōssopetra	glōssopetrae

References

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