"Delphin" meaning in German

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Noun

IPA: /dɛlˈfiːn/ Audio: De-Delphin.ogg
Etymology: From Middle High German delfīn, telfīn (13th c.), from Latin delphinus. Forms with diphthongization (Delphein) are hardly attestable, meaning that it was not fully integrated before the Modern German period. Etymology templates: {{dercat|de|grc}}, {{inh|de|gmh|delfīn}} Middle High German delfīn, {{der|de|la|delphinus}} Latin delphinus Head templates: {{de-noun|m}} Delphin m (strong, genitive Delphins, plural Delphine) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|m}} Forms: Delphins [genitive], Delphine [plural], strong [table-tags], Delphin [nominative, singular], Delphine [definite, nominative, plural], Delphins [genitive, singular], Delphine [definite, genitive, plural], Delphin [dative, singular], Delphinen [dative, definite, plural], Delphin [accusative, singular], Delphine [accusative, definite, plural]
  1. dolphin Tags: masculine, strong Synonyms: Meerschwein [obsolete], Schweinsfisch
    Sense id: en-Delphin-de-noun-Uy8BHsif Categories (other): German words affected by 1996 spelling reform Disambiguation of German words affected by 1996 spelling reform: 16 42 34 8
  2. (heraldry) dolphin Tags: masculine, strong Categories (topical): Heraldic charges Categories (lifeform): Delphinids
    Sense id: en-Delphin-de-noun-Uy8BHsif1 Disambiguation of Delphinids: 22 40 24 14 Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header, German words affected by 1996 spelling reform, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 7 47 38 8 Disambiguation of German words affected by 1996 spelling reform: 16 42 34 8 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 3 51 33 13 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 47 38 12 Topics: government, heraldry, hobbies, lifestyle, monarchy, nobility, politics
  3. (astronomy) Delphinus Tags: masculine, strong Categories (topical): Astronomy, Constellations
    Sense id: en-Delphin-de-noun-WISH34mP Disambiguation of Constellations: 2 14 74 10 Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header, German words affected by 1996 spelling reform, Pages with entries Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 7 47 38 8 Disambiguation of German words affected by 1996 spelling reform: 16 42 34 8 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 47 38 12 Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
  4. Obsolete form of Dauphin. Tags: alt-of, masculine, obsolete, strong Alternative form of: Dauphin
    Sense id: en-Delphin-de-noun-Ub2BREHY Categories (other): Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 47 38 12
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Delfin (1996 spelling reform, now roughly equally common)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "text": "→ Serbo-Croatian:"
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      "depth": 1,
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        }
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      "text": "Latin script: dèlfīn"
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          "expansion": "→ Slovak: delfín",
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      "text": "→ Slovak: delfín"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
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          "args": {
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          "expansion": "→ Swedish: delfin",
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        "genitive"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "Delphine",
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        "plural"
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        "singular"
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        "plural"
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        "plural"
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      "form": "Delphin",
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        "dative",
        "singular"
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      "form": "Delphinen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
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    },
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      "form": "Delphin",
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      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
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        "definite",
        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "de",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        }
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          "english": "Dolphins are by far the most intelligent of all animals.",
          "ref": "2010, Der Spiegel, number 5/2010, page 100:",
          "text": "Delphine sind die mit Abstand intelligentesten aller Tiere.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        {
          "tags": [
            "obsolete"
          ],
          "word": "Meerschwein"
        },
        {
          "word": "Schweinsfisch"
        }
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        "masculine",
        "strong"
      ]
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          "name": "Heraldic charges",
          "orig": "de:Heraldic charges",
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            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
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          "_dis": "22 40 24 14",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "de",
          "name": "Delphinids",
          "orig": "de:Delphinids",
          "parents": [
            "Cetaceans",
            "Even-toed ungulates",
            "Mammals",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Chordates",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
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          "source": "w+disamb"
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      "glosses": [
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      "id": "en-Delphin-de-noun-Uy8BHsif1",
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          "dolphin",
          "dolphin"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(heraldry) dolphin"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "strong"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "heraldry",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "monarchy",
        "nobility",
        "politics"
      ]
    },
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          "langcode": "de",
          "name": "Astronomy",
          "orig": "de:Astronomy",
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            "Sciences",
            "Space",
            "All topics",
            "Nature",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "7 47 38 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "German entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "16 42 34 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "German words affected by 1996 spelling reform",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "3 47 38 12",
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "2 14 74 10",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "de",
          "name": "Constellations",
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          "parents": [
            "Astronomy",
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        }
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        {
          "ref": "1718, Joh. Ludovicus Andreas, Mathematische und Historische Beschreibung des gantzen Welt-Gebäudes, page 60:",
          "text": "Delphin. Das Meerschwein. Das XXXV. Sternbild. [...] Nachdem er aber noch so viel Zeit erhalten, vorher ein bewegliches Klagelied zu spielen, und sich darauf in das Meer geworfen, ist so balden ein Delphin oder Meerschwein gekommen, hat ihn auf seinen Rucken genommen, und glücklich auf den Tenarischen Strand ans Land gesetzt, davor es nun unter den Sternen steht, wie Ovidius anzeigt;",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "1772, Johann Elert Bode, Deutliche Anleitung zur Kenntniß des gestirnten Himmels, Hamburg, pages 208 and 286",
          "roman": "Neben dem hellen Stern im Adler, gegen Osten, etwas aufwärts, ist an der Milchstraße der Delphin, oder das Meerschwein, ganz deutlich an fünf nahe zusammenstehenden Sternen dritter Größe zu sehen.",
          "text": "Neben dem hellen Stern im Adler, zur Linken unterwärts, zeigt sich der Delphin, oder das Meerschwein, mit fünf Sternen dritter Größe, welche nahe bey einander stehen.\n(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
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        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "roman": "Den Namen Delphin, oder Meerschwein führet auch ein Sternbild zwischen dem Adler und Pegasus, welches vierzehn Sterne enthält, nämlich fünfe von der dritten, welche nahe bey einander stehen, zween von der fünften und sieben von der sechsten Größe.",
          "text": "1776, Neuer Schauplatz der Natur nach den richtigsten Beobachtungen und Versuchen. Zweyter Band, Leipzig, page 309",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "1786, Christoph von Helwig, Hundertjähriger Kalender. Neue ganz veränderte Auflage, Leipzig, pages 152 and 153",
          "roman": "Zeigt sich fast ganz in der Milchstraße, nordwärts über dem Adler, südwärts unter dem Fuchs mit der Gans, westwärts beim Delphin, ostwärts beim Cerberus und Zweig.",
          "text": "Das Meerschwein oder der Delphin (Delphinus)\nIst ebenfals ein kleines Sternbild ostwärts beim Adler und Pfeil zunächst an der Milchstraße südwärts beim Fuchs mit der Gans, westwärts beim Pegasus und Füllen, nordwärts beim Waßermann und Antinuous.\n(please add an English translation of this quotation)\nDer Pfeil (Sagitta)",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "1842, Joseph Jüttner, Anweisung zum Gebrauche der Himmelskugel. Zweite vermehrte Auflage, Olmütz, page 68",
          "roman": "Das Füllen oder kleine Pferd. Von diesem wird nur der Kopf vorgestellt, er liegt zwischen dem Pegasus, Wassermann und Delphin.",
          "text": "Der Delphin auch Meerschwein genannt, ist leicht aus fünf Sternen zu erkennen, die nahe beisammen stehen ...\n(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1857, K. F. Robert Schneider, Handbuch der Erdbeschreibung und Staatenkunde in ihrer Verbindung mit Natur- und Menschenkunde. Erster Theil., page 180:",
          "text": "Die 21 schon den Alten bekannten nördlichen Sternbilder sind ... der Delphin oder das Meerschwein, delphinus.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "links": [
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        [
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          "Delphinus"
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        "(astronomy) Delphinus"
      ],
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        "masculine",
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          "word": "Dauphin"
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      "_dis1": "9 38 40 12",
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            "1": "pl",
            "2": "delfin",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Polish: delfin",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Polish: delfin"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zle-ort",
            "2": "делфинъ",
            "alt": "делфи́нъ",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Old Ruthenian: делфи́нъ (delfín)\nBelarusian: дэльфі́н (delʹfín)\nCarpathian Rusyn: делфи́н (delfýn)\nUkrainian: дельфі́н (delʹfín)",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Old Ruthenian: делфи́нъ (delfín)\nBelarusian: дэльфі́н (delʹfín)\nCarpathian Rusyn: делфи́н (delfýn)\nUkrainian: дельфі́н (delʹfín)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sh",
            "2": "-",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Serbo-Croatian:",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Serbo-Croatian:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sh",
            "2": "дѐлфӣн",
            "sclb": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "Cyrillic script: дѐлфӣн",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Cyrillic script: дѐлфӣн"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sh",
            "2": "dèlfīn",
            "sclb": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "Latin script: dèlfīn",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Latin script: dèlfīn"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sk",
            "2": "delfín",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Slovak: delfín",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Slovak: delfín"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sv",
            "2": "delfin",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Swedish: delfin",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Swedish: delfin"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "hsb",
            "2": "delfin",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Upper Sorbian: delfin",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Upper Sorbian: delfin"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "grc"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "dercat"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "gmh",
        "3": "delfīn"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle High German delfīn",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "delphinus"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin delphinus",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle High German delfīn, telfīn (13th c.), from Latin delphinus. Forms with diphthongization (Delphein) are hardly attestable, meaning that it was not fully integrated before the Modern German period.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Delphins",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Delphine",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strong",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "de-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Delphin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Delphine",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Delphins",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Delphine",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Delphin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Delphinen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Delphin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Delphine",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "Delphin m (strong, genitive Delphins, plural Delphine)",
      "name": "de-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "name": "de-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "German",
  "lang_code": "de",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "German terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Dolphins are by far the most intelligent of all animals.",
          "ref": "2010, Der Spiegel, number 5/2010, page 100:",
          "text": "Delphine sind die mit Abstand intelligentesten aller Tiere.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "dolphin"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dolphin",
          "dolphin"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "obsolete"
          ],
          "word": "Meerschwein"
        },
        {
          "word": "Schweinsfisch"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "strong"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "de:Heraldic charges"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "dolphin"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "heraldry",
          "heraldry"
        ],
        [
          "dolphin",
          "dolphin"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(heraldry) dolphin"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "strong"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "heraldry",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "monarchy",
        "nobility",
        "politics"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "German terms with quotations",
        "Requests for translations of German quotations",
        "de:Astronomy"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1718, Joh. Ludovicus Andreas, Mathematische und Historische Beschreibung des gantzen Welt-Gebäudes, page 60:",
          "text": "Delphin. Das Meerschwein. Das XXXV. Sternbild. [...] Nachdem er aber noch so viel Zeit erhalten, vorher ein bewegliches Klagelied zu spielen, und sich darauf in das Meer geworfen, ist so balden ein Delphin oder Meerschwein gekommen, hat ihn auf seinen Rucken genommen, und glücklich auf den Tenarischen Strand ans Land gesetzt, davor es nun unter den Sternen steht, wie Ovidius anzeigt;",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "1772, Johann Elert Bode, Deutliche Anleitung zur Kenntniß des gestirnten Himmels, Hamburg, pages 208 and 286",
          "roman": "Neben dem hellen Stern im Adler, gegen Osten, etwas aufwärts, ist an der Milchstraße der Delphin, oder das Meerschwein, ganz deutlich an fünf nahe zusammenstehenden Sternen dritter Größe zu sehen.",
          "text": "Neben dem hellen Stern im Adler, zur Linken unterwärts, zeigt sich der Delphin, oder das Meerschwein, mit fünf Sternen dritter Größe, welche nahe bey einander stehen.\n(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "roman": "Den Namen Delphin, oder Meerschwein führet auch ein Sternbild zwischen dem Adler und Pegasus, welches vierzehn Sterne enthält, nämlich fünfe von der dritten, welche nahe bey einander stehen, zween von der fünften und sieben von der sechsten Größe.",
          "text": "1776, Neuer Schauplatz der Natur nach den richtigsten Beobachtungen und Versuchen. Zweyter Band, Leipzig, page 309",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "1786, Christoph von Helwig, Hundertjähriger Kalender. Neue ganz veränderte Auflage, Leipzig, pages 152 and 153",
          "roman": "Zeigt sich fast ganz in der Milchstraße, nordwärts über dem Adler, südwärts unter dem Fuchs mit der Gans, westwärts beim Delphin, ostwärts beim Cerberus und Zweig.",
          "text": "Das Meerschwein oder der Delphin (Delphinus)\nIst ebenfals ein kleines Sternbild ostwärts beim Adler und Pfeil zunächst an der Milchstraße südwärts beim Fuchs mit der Gans, westwärts beim Pegasus und Füllen, nordwärts beim Waßermann und Antinuous.\n(please add an English translation of this quotation)\nDer Pfeil (Sagitta)",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "1842, Joseph Jüttner, Anweisung zum Gebrauche der Himmelskugel. Zweite vermehrte Auflage, Olmütz, page 68",
          "roman": "Das Füllen oder kleine Pferd. Von diesem wird nur der Kopf vorgestellt, er liegt zwischen dem Pegasus, Wassermann und Delphin.",
          "text": "Der Delphin auch Meerschwein genannt, ist leicht aus fünf Sternen zu erkennen, die nahe beisammen stehen ...\n(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1857, K. F. Robert Schneider, Handbuch der Erdbeschreibung und Staatenkunde in ihrer Verbindung mit Natur- und Menschenkunde. Erster Theil., page 180:",
          "text": "Die 21 schon den Alten bekannten nördlichen Sternbilder sind ... der Delphin oder das Meerschwein, delphinus.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Delphinus"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "astronomy",
          "astronomy"
        ],
        [
          "Delphinus",
          "Delphinus"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(astronomy) Delphinus"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "strong"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "astronomy",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "Dauphin"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "German obsolete forms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete form of Dauphin."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Dauphin",
          "Dauphin#German"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "masculine",
        "obsolete",
        "strong"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/dɛlˈfiːn/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "De-Delphin.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8f/De-Delphin.ogg/De-Delphin.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/De-Delphin.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Delfin (1996 spelling reform, now roughly equally common)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Delphin"
}

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