selenites

See also: Selenites and sélénites

English

Noun

selenites

1. plural of selenite

Anagrams

• eliteness, enlistees

Latin

Alternative forms

• selēnītis

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σεληνίτης (selēnítēs), from σελήνη (selḗnē, “moon”) + -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /se.leːˈniː.teːs/, [s̠ɛɫ̪eːˈniːt̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /se.leˈni.tes/, [seleˈniːt̪es]

Noun

selēnītēs m (genitive selēnītae); first declension

1. Crystalline gypsum, selenite

Declension

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

	singular	plural
nominative	selēnītēs	selēnītae
genitive	selēnītae	selēnītārum
dative	selēnītae	selēnītīs
accusative	selēnītēn	selēnītās
ablative	selēnītē	selēnītīs
vocative	selēnītē	selēnītae

Descendants

• Catalan: selenita

References

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