lagopus

See also: Lagopus

English

Etymology

From the Latin lagōpūs, from the Ancient Greek λαγώπους (lagṓpous), from λαγώς (lagṓs, “hare”) + πούς (poús, “foot”); compare lagopod, lagopode. The bird was given this name because its feet resemble those of a hare.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ləgōʹpəs, IPA^(key): /ləˈɡəʊpəs/
• Homophone: lagopous

Noun

lagopus (plural lagopodes)

1. (obsolete) The ptarmigan.

References

• “†Lago·pus” listed on page 28 of volume VI, part I (L, M) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1908]
    †Lago·pus. Obs. [a. L. lagōpūs, Gr. λαγώπους, f. λαγώς hare + πούς foot.] A bird with a foot resembling that of a hare; the ptarmigan. [¶] 1693 Sir T. P. Blount Nat. Hist. 385 Some..Birds..live upon the highest tops of the Alps, and that all the winter too..as..the Lagopus among birds. 1773 Barrington in Phil. Trans. LXIII. 224 The Lagopus, of which M. de Buffon gives an engraving, is in its winter plumage.
• “†laˈgopus” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λαγώπους (lagṓpous), from λαγώς (lagṓs, “hare”) + πούς (poús, “foot”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /laˈɡoː.puːs/, [ɫ̪äˈɡoːpuːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /laˈɡo.pus/, [läˈɡɔːpus]

Noun

lagōpūs f (genitive lagōpodis); third declension

1. ptarmigan (a bird)
2. hare's-foot (a herb)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	lagōpūs	lagōpodēs
genitive	lagōpodis	lagōpodum
dative	lagōpodī	lagōpodibus
accusative	lagōpodem	lagōpodēs
ablative	lagōpode	lagōpodibus
vocative	lagōpūs	lagōpodēs

References

• “lagopus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press