meconites

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μηκωνίτης (mēkōnítēs), from μήκων (mḗkōn, “poppy”) + -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /meː.koːˈniː.teːs/, [meːkoːˈniːt̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /me.koˈni.tes/, [mekoˈniːt̪es]

Noun

mēcōnītēs m (genitive mēcōnītae); first declension

1. An unknown kind of precious stone resembling a poppy.

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).

	singular	plural
nominative	mēcōnītēs	mēcōnītae
genitive	mēcōnītae	mēcōnītārum
dative	mēcōnītae	mēcōnītīs
accusative	mēcōnītēn	mēcōnītās
ablative	mēcōnītē	mēcōnītīs
vocative	mēcōnītē	mēcōnītae

References

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