hyaena
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hyaena (plural hyaenas or hyaenae)
- Alternative spelling of hyena
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek ὕαινα (húaina).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /hyˈae̯.na/, [hyˈäe̯nä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /iˈe.na/, [iˈɛːnä]
Noun
[edit]hyaena f (genitive hyaenae); first declension
- a hyena
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | hyaena | hyaenae |
| genitive | hyaenae | hyaenārum |
| dative | hyaenae | hyaenīs |
| accusative | hyaenam | hyaenās |
| ablative | hyaenā | hyaenīs |
| vocative | hyaena | hyaenae |
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- “hyaena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “hyaena”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- hyaena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Categories:
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- en:Hyaenids
- Latin terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Latin 3-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin first declension nouns
- Latin feminine nouns in the first declension
- Latin terms spelled with Y
- Latin feminine nouns
- la:Hyaenids