pelecanus
See also: Pelecanus
Latin
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek πελεκάν (pelekán), πελεκάνος (pelekános).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /pe.leˈkaː.nus/, [pɛɫ̪ɛˈkäːnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pe.leˈka.nus/, [peleˈkäːnus]
Noun
[edit]pelecānus m (genitive pelecānī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | pelecānus | pelecānī |
| genitive | pelecānī | pelecānōrum |
| dative | pelecānō | pelecānīs |
| accusative | pelecānum | pelecānōs |
| ablative | pelecānō | pelecānīs |
| vocative | pelecāne | pelecānī |
Descendants
[edit]- → Basque: pelikano
- → Breton: pilikant
- → Bulgarian: пеликан (pelikan)
- Catalan: pelicà
- → Chechen: пеликан (pelikan)
- → Czech: pelikán
- → Danish: pelikan
- → Dutch: pelikaan
- → English: pelican
- → Esperanto: pelikano
- → Estonian: pelikan
- → Finnish: pelikaani
- French: pélican
- → Romanian: pelican
- Friulian: pilekaan
- Galician: pelícano
- → German: Pelikan
- → Hungarian: pelikán
- → Icelandic: pelíkani
- → Ido: pelikano
- → Indonesian: pelikan
- → Interlingua: pelicano
- → Irish: peileacán
- Italian: pellicano
- → Japanese: ペリカン (perikan)
- → Korean: 펠리컨 (pellikeon)
- → Lithuanian: pelikanas
- → Macedonian: пеликан (pelikan)
- Norman: pélican
- → Northern Kurdish: pelîkan
- → Norwegian: pelikan
- Occitan: pelican
- → Papiamentu: pelikan
- Picard: pélincan
- → Polish: pelikan
- Portuguese: pelicano
- Romansch: pelican
- → Russian: пеликан (pelikan)
- → Scottish Gaelic: pelican
- → Serbo-Croatian: пеликан
- → Slovak: pelikán
- → Slovene: pelikan
- Spanish: pelícano
- → Swedish: pelikan
- → Translingual: Pelecanus
- → Turkish: pelikan
- → Ukrainian: пелікан (pelikan)
- → West Frisian: pilekaan
References
[edit]- “pelecanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pelecanus 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)
- pelecanus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.