See Volans in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "",
"4": "piscis volāns",
"5": "flying fish"
},
"expansion": "Latin piscis volāns (“flying fish”)",
"name": "uder"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597. Shortened from Piscis Volans, from Latin piscis volāns (“flying fish”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Volans",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English undefined derivations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Galician translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Irish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Malay translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Constellations",
"orig": "en:Constellations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "Volantis"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a flying fish."
],
"id": "en-Volans-en-name-NV-9XmDo",
"links": [
[
"astronomy",
"astronomy"
],
[
"circumpolar",
"circumpolar"
],
[
"constellation",
"constellation"
],
[
"southern",
"southern"
],
[
"flying fish",
"flying fish"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(astronomy) A small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a flying fish."
],
"topics": [
"astronomy",
"natural-sciences"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"sense": "small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Vliegende Vis"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky",
"word": "Lentokala"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Poisson volant"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"lang_code": "gl",
"sense": "small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky",
"word": "Peixe Voador"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Fliegender Fisch"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"lang_code": "ga",
"sense": "small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "an tIasc Eitilte"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"lang_code": "ms",
"sense": "small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky",
"word": "Ikan Terbang"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Ryba Latająca"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "Letučaja Ryba",
"sense": "small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky",
"word": "Летучая Рыба"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky",
"word": "Volans"
}
]
}
],
"word": "Volans"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "Volantis"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "",
"4": "piscis volāns",
"5": "flying fish"
},
"expansion": "Latin piscis volāns (“flying fish”)",
"name": "uder"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597. Shortened from Piscis Volans, from Latin piscis volāns (“flying fish”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Volans",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English proper nouns",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English undefined derivations",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Galician translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Irish translations",
"Terms with Malay translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"en:Constellations"
],
"glosses": [
"A small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a flying fish."
],
"links": [
[
"astronomy",
"astronomy"
],
[
"circumpolar",
"circumpolar"
],
[
"constellation",
"constellation"
],
[
"southern",
"southern"
],
[
"flying fish",
"flying fish"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(astronomy) A small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a flying fish."
],
"topics": [
"astronomy",
"natural-sciences"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"sense": "small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Vliegende Vis"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky",
"word": "Lentokala"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Poisson volant"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"lang_code": "gl",
"sense": "small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky",
"word": "Peixe Voador"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Fliegender Fisch"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"lang_code": "ga",
"sense": "small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "an tIasc Eitilte"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"lang_code": "ms",
"sense": "small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky",
"word": "Ikan Terbang"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Ryba Latająca"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "Letučaja Ryba",
"sense": "small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky",
"word": "Летучая Рыба"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky",
"word": "Volans"
}
],
"word": "Volans"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Volans meaning in English (3.2kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (f492ef9 and 9905b1f). 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.