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xiphias

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See also: Xiphias

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from translingual Xiphias or Latin xiphiās (swordfish).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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xiphias (plural xiphias)

  1. Synonym of swordfish
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. [], London: [] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      Huge Ziffius, whom Mariners eschew / No lesse, then rockes, as travellers informe []
    • 1700, Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London, volume 3, page 38:
      S. Malpighi having dissected the Head of a Xiphias or Sword Fish, which hath a very big Eye, observ'd that the middle of the Optick Nerve is nothing else, but a large Membrane, folded according to its length in many Doubles almost like a Fan, and invested by the Dura Mater.
    • 1857, Bostock & Riley, “part 32.vi”, in Natural History, translation of original by Pliny:
      Trebius Niger informs us that [] the xiphias, or, in other words, the sword-fish, has a sharp-pointed muzzle, with which it is able to pierce the sides of a ship and send it to the bottom []
    • 23 May 1863, Prof. Huxley, “Structure and development of the vertebrate skeleton”, in The Lancet:
      In the xiphias, you observe, the enormous elongation of the head is produced by the elongation of the jaws proper – that is to say, of the pre-maxilla and nasal bones.

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Latin

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xiphiās (a swordfish)

Etymology

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From Ancient Greek ξιφίας (xiphías), derived from ξίφος (xíphos, sword).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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xiphiās m (genitive xiphiae); first declension

  1. a swordfish, Xiphias gladius
  2. a sword-shaped comet

Declension

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

singular plural
nominative xiphiās xiphiae
genitive xiphiae xiphiārum
dative xiphiae xiphiīs
accusative xiphiān xiphiās
ablative xiphiā xiphiīs
vocative xiphiā xiphiae

Synonyms

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Descendants

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  • Translingual: Xiphias

References

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  • xiphias”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • xiphias”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • xiphias in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.