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See also: Antlia
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin antlia (“pump”), from Ancient Greek ἀντλία (antlía).
Noun
[edit]antlia (plural antliae)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “antlia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek ἀντλία (antlía, “bilge-water, filth”), from ἀντλέω (antléō, “to bale out bilge-water, to bale the ship, to draw water”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈant.li.a/, [ˈän̪t̪lʲiä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈant.li.a/, [ˈän̪t̪liä]
Noun
[edit]antlia f (genitive antliae); first declension
- a foot-operated pump for drawing water
- (zoology) the body part of an insect used to suck up plant juices
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | antlia | antliae |
Genitive | antliae | antliārum |
Dative | antliae | antliīs |
Accusative | antliam | antliās |
Ablative | antliā | antliīs |
Vocative | antlia | antliae |
References
[edit]- “antlia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- antlia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “antlia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “antlia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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