stellio

See also: Stellio

English

Noun

stellio

1. (zoology, obsolete) The agamid lizard Laudakia stellio.

Latin

Etymology

From stēlla (“star”) +‎ -iō, perhaps originally for the star lizard, so named because of the starlike spots on its back.

Noun

stēlliō m (genitive stēlliōnis); third declension

1. stellion or other kind of small lizard, newt
2. crafty person, scoundrel

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	stēlliō	stēlliōnēs
genitive	stēlliōnis	stēlliōnum
dative	stēlliōnī	stēlliōnibus
accusative	stēlliōnem	stēlliōnēs
ablative	stēlliōne	stēlliōnibus
vocative	stēlliō	stēlliōnēs

References

• “stellio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “stellio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stellio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• stellio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.