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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈzɪfiəs/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-xiphias.wav Forms: xiphias [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Xiphias or Latin xiphiās (“swordfish”). Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|mul|Xiphias}} Borrowed from translingual Xiphias, {{bor|en|la|xiphiās|t=swordfish}} Latin xiphiās (“swordfish”) Head templates: {{en-noun|xiphias}} xiphias (plural xiphias)
  1. Synonym of swordfish Categories (lifeform): Scombroids Synonyms: swordfish [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-xiphias-en-noun--hlf2~mw Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 67 30 3 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 68 30 3

Noun [Latin]

IPA: /ˈksi.pʰi.aːs/ [Classical-Latin], [ˈks̠ɪpʰiäːs̠] [Classical-Latin], /ˈksi.fi.as/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [ˈksiːfiäs] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ξιφίας (xiphías), derived from ξίφος (xíphos, “sword”). Etymology templates: {{der|la|grc|ξιφίας}} Ancient Greek ξιφίας (xiphías) Head templates: {{la-noun|xiphiās<1>}} xiphiās m (genitive xiphiae); first declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|xiphiās<1>}} Forms: xiphiās [canonical, masculine], xiphiae [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], xiphiās [nominative, singular], xiphiae [nominative, plural], xiphiae [genitive, singular], xiphiārum [genitive, plural], xiphiae [dative, singular], xiphiīs [dative, plural], xiphiān [accusative, singular], xiphiās [accusative, plural], xiphiā [ablative, singular], xiphiīs [ablative, plural], xiphiā [singular, vocative], xiphiae [plural, vocative]
  1. a swordfish, Xiphias gladius Tags: declension-1 Categories (lifeform): Fish Synonyms (swordfish): gladius
    Sense id: en-xiphias-la-noun-BjngwTX1 Disambiguation of Fish: 95 5 Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin masculine nouns in the first declension Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 88 12 Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the first declension: 65 35 Disambiguation of 'swordfish': 96 4
  2. a sword-shaped comet Tags: declension-1
    Sense id: en-xiphias-la-noun-rptlajgv
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: xiphion

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (95d2be1 and 64224ec). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.