phoenix

la-noun

phoenīx f (genitive phoenīcis); third declension

phoenīx (canonical feminine)
phoenīcis (genitive)
phoenīx (nominative singular)
phoenīcēs (nominative plural)
phoenīcis (genitive singular)
phoenīcium (genitive plural)
phoenīcī (dative singular)
phoenīcibus (dative plural)
phoenīcem (accusative singular)
phoenīcēs (accusative plural)
phoenīcīs (accusative plural)
phoenīce (ablative singular)
phoenīcibus (ablative plural)
phoenīx (singular vocative)
phoenīcēs (plural vocative)
fenix (alternative)


larva

lārva f (genitive lārvae); first declension

lārva (canonical feminine)
lārvae (genitive)
lārva (nominative singular)
lārvae (nominative plural)
lārvae (genitive singular)
lārvārum (genitive plural)
lārvae (dative singular)
lārvīs (dative plural)
lārvam (accusative singular)
lārvās (accusative plural)
lārvā (ablative singular)
lārvīs (ablative plural)
lārva (singular vocative)
lārvae (plural vocative)

Catalan: larva

Czech: larva

Danish: larve

Dutch: larve

English: larva

French: larve

Galician: larva

Hungarian: lárva

Macedonian: ларва (larva)

Middle High German: larve, larfe

German: Larve

Mòcheno: lòrf

Italian: larva

Norwegian: larve

Polish: larwa

Portuguese: larva

Romanian: larvă

Russian: ла́рва (lárva)

Spanish: larva

Swedish: larv

Possibly from Lār (“Etruscan praenomen; titulary god”), usu. as Lares (“guardian deities”), but vowel length gradation unexplained.

(mythology) ghost, haunt, evil spirit, demon, devil


nanus

nānus m (genitive nānī); second declension

nānus (canonical masculine)
nānī (genitive)
nānus (nominative singular)
nānī (nominative plural)
nānī (genitive singular)
nānōrum (genitive plural)
nānō (dative singular)
nānīs (dative plural)
nānum (accusative singular)
nānōs (accusative plural)
nānō (ablative singular)
nānīs (ablative plural)
nāne (singular vocative)
nānī (plural vocative)

Asturian: nanu

Catalan: nan

→ English: nano-

French: nain

Galician: anano

Italian: nano

Portuguese: anão

Romanian: nan

Sardinian: nanu

Sicilian: nanu

Spanish: enano

Borrowed from Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos, “dwarf”).


centaurus

la-noun

centaurus m (genitive centaurī); second declension

centaurī (genitive)
centaurus (nominative singular)
centaurī (nominative plural)
centaurī (genitive singular)
centaurōrum (genitive plural)
centaurō (dative singular)
centaurīs (dative plural)
centaurum (accusative singular)
centaurōs (accusative plural)
centaurō (ablative singular)
centaurīs (ablative plural)
centaure (singular vocative)
centaurī (plural vocative)
Centaurus (alternative)

Catalan: centaure

English: centaur

French: centaure

Galician: centauro

Italian: centauro

Portuguese: centauro

Romanian: centaur

Spanish: centauro

[kɛn̪ˈt̪äu̯rʊs̠]

From Ancient Greek κένταυρος (kéntauros, “centaur”), from Κένταυρος (Kéntauros, “a savage race, dwelling between Pelion and Ossa”).


picus

la-noun

pīcus m (genitive pīcī); second declension

pīcus (canonical masculine)
pīcī (genitive)
pīcus (nominative singular)
pīcī (nominative plural)
pīcī (genitive singular)
pīcōrum (genitive plural)
pīcō (dative singular)
pīcīs (dative plural)
pīcum (accusative singular)
pīcōs (accusative plural)
pīcō (ablative singular)
pīcīs (ablative plural)
pīce (singular vocative)
pīcī (plural vocative)
pīccus (alternative)
pīcca (alternative)

Asturian: picatueru

Catalan: picot

French: pic, pivert

Friulian: pic

desc

Piedmontese: pic, pions, picons, picassa

Galician: piquelo, peto (perhaps)

Italian: picchio

Occitan: picot

Sicilian: picu

Spanish: pito, pico

Translingual: Picus

From Proto-Italic *pikos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker; magpie”), whence also Latin pīca (“magpie”).
Romance evidence points to a form with -cc-, perhaps onomatopoeic and/or influenced by Vulgar Latin *pīccāre (“to strike, sting, peck”) and/or Proto-Germanic *pikkōną (“to pick, peck, prick”). Cf. Vulgar Latin *pīcca (“pick-axe”).
Cognate with Umbrian peico (acc.sg.), Sanskrit पिक (piká, “cuckoo”), German Specht (“woodpecker”), Swedish spett (“crowbar, skewer; kind of woodpecker”).

onomatopoeic

onomatopoeic


nymphe

la-noun

nymphē f (genitive nymphēs); first declension

nymphē (canonical feminine)
nymphēs (genitive)
nymphē (nominative singular)
nymphae (nominative plural)
nymphēs (genitive singular)
nymphārum (genitive plural)
nymphae (dative singular)
nymphīs (dative plural)
nymphēn (accusative singular)
nymphās (accusative plural)
nymphē (ablative singular)
nymphīs (ablative plural)
nymphē (singular vocative)
nymphae (plural vocative)
nympha (alternative)

From Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē, “bride, nymph”).


nympha

la-noun

nympha f (genitive nymphae); first declension

nymphae (genitive)
nympha (nominative singular)
nymphae (nominative plural)
nymphae (genitive singular)
nymphārum (genitive plural)
nymphae (dative singular)
nymphīs (dative plural)
nympham (accusative singular)
nymphās (accusative plural)
nymphā (ablative singular)
nymphīs (ablative plural)
nympha (singular vocative)
nymphae (plural vocative)
nymphē (alternative)

Asturian: ninfa

Catalan: nimfa

desctree

Old French: nimphe
French: nymphe
→ Middle Dutch: nymphe
Dutch: nimf
→ Middle English: nimphe, nymphe, nemphe
English: nymph

Italian: ninfa

Portuguese: ninfa

Romanian: nimfă

Sicilian: ninfa

Spanish: ninfa

Welsh: nymff

Derived from Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē, “bride, nymph”). Compare with Latin lympha.

der+

(Greek mythology) nymph (mythical demigoddess)


sphinx

la-noun

sphinx f (genitive sphingis); third declension

sphingis (genitive)
sphinx (nominative singular)
sphingēs (nominative plural)
sphinges (nominative plural)
sphingis (genitive singular)
sphingos (genitive singular)
sphingum (genitive plural)
sphingī (dative singular)
sphingibus (dative plural)
sphingem (accusative singular)
sphinga (accusative singular)
sphingēs (accusative plural)
sphingas (accusative plural)
sphinge (ablative singular)
sphingibus (ablative plural)
sphinx (singular vocative)
sphingēs (plural vocative)
sphinges (plural vocative)

[ˈs̠pʰɪŋks̠]

From Ancient Greek Σφίγξ (Sphínx), perhaps from σφίγγω (sphíngō, “to squeeze, to strangle”) or from Egyptian Szp:p-A53-anx-n:x (šzp-ꜥnḫ, “divine image”, literally “living image”).

der

<i class="Latn mention" lang="egy">šzp-ꜥnḫ</i>


draco

la-noun

dracō m (genitive dracōnis); third declension

dracō (canonical masculine)
dracōnis (genitive)
dracō (nominative singular)
dracōnēs (nominative plural)
dracōnis (genitive singular)
dracōnum (genitive plural)
dracōnī (dative singular)
dracōnibus (dative plural)
dracōnem (accusative singular)
dracōnēs (accusative plural)
dracōne (ablative singular)
dracōnibus (ablative plural)
dracō (singular vocative)
dracōnēs (plural vocative)
draccō (alternative)

Eastern Romance:

Aromanian: drac, dracu, dãrac, darac

Megleno-Romanian: drac

Romanian: drac

Italian: drago, dragone

Navarro-Aragonese:

Aragonese: dragón

Neapolitan: draone

desctree

→ Old French: dragon, dragun (Anglo-Norman)
Middle French: dracon
French: dragon (see there for further descendants)
Norman: dragon
→ Middle English: dragoun, dragon, dragoune, dragun
English: dragon (see there for further descendants)
Scots: draigon
→ Old Irish: dragán
Irish: dragan
Manx: dragan

Old Leonese:

Asturian: dragu, dragón

Old Occitan:

Catalan: drac, dragó

Occitan: drac, dragon

→ French: drac

Old Galician-Portuguese: dragon

Galician: dragón

Portuguese: drago, dragão

Old Spanish: dragon
Spanish: drago, dragón (see there for further descendants)

Rhaeto-Romance:

Friulian: drâc, dragon

Romansch: dragun

Sardinian: dragone

Sicilian: dragu

→ Maltese: dragun

Venetan: dragon

Vulgar Latin: *dragōnis

→ Proto-Albanian: *dragɔ̄n

Albanian: dragua

→ Albanian: *drak

Albanian: dreq

→ Cornish: dragon

→ Estonian: draakon

→ Proto-West Germanic: *drakō (see there for further descendants)

→ Latvian: drakons

→ Lithuanian: drakonas

→ Welsh: draig

→ Yiddish: דראַקאָן (drakon)

From Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “serpent, dragon”).


magus

la-noun

magus m (genitive magī); second declension

magī (genitive)
magus (nominative singular)
magī (nominative plural)
magī (genitive singular)
magōrum (genitive plural)
magō (dative singular)
magīs (dative plural)
magum (accusative singular)
magōs (accusative plural)
magō (ablative singular)
magīs (ablative plural)
mage (singular vocative)
magī (plural vocative)

→ Dutch: magiër

→ English: Magi, mage, magus

Catalan: magi

French: mage

→ Hungarian: mágus

Italian: mago

Piedmontese: mago

Portuguese: mago

Romanian: mag

→ Spanish: mago

→ Cebuano: mago

From Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos, “magician”), from Μάγος (Mágos, “Magian”), of an indeterminate Old Iranian origin (see Μάγος (Mágos) for details).

(figuratively) magician, wizard, (derogatory) sorcerer, trickster, conjurer, charlatan


monstrum

mōnstrum n (genitive mōnstrī); second declension

mōnstrum (canonical neuter)
mōnstrī (genitive)
mōnstrum (nominative singular)
mōnstra (nominative plural)
mōnstrī (genitive singular)
mōnstrōrum (genitive plural)
mōnstrō (dative singular)
mōnstrīs (dative plural)
mōnstrum (accusative singular)
mōnstra (accusative plural)
mōnstrō (ablative singular)
mōnstrīs (ablative plural)
mōnstrum (singular vocative)
mōnstra (plural vocative)

Catalan: monstre

→ Esperanto: monstro

Galician: monstro

Italian: mostro

desctree

Old French: monstre, mostre, moustre
→ Middle English: monstre, moustre
English: monster
Scots: monster
Middle French: monstre
French: monstre
→ Romanian: monstru
Norman: monstre
→ Middle Dutch: monster
Dutch: monster

Portuguese: monstro

Spanish: monstruo

→ Albanian: moshtrë, monstër

[ˈmõːs̠t̪rʊ̃ˑ]

From Proto-Italic *monestrom. Equivalent to moneō (“advise, warn”) + -trum (suffix forming instrument nouns).

suffix

(fantasy, mythology) a divine omen indicating misfortune, an evil omen, portent


gryps

la-noun

grȳps m (genitive grȳpis); third declension

grȳps (canonical masculine)
grȳpis (genitive)
grȳps (nominative singular)
grȳpēs (nominative plural)
grȳpes (nominative plural)
grȳpis (genitive singular)
grȳpium (genitive plural)
grȳpī (dative singular)
grȳpibus (dative plural)
grȳpem (accusative singular)
grȳpēs (accusative plural)
grȳpīs (accusative plural)
grypas (accusative plural)
grȳpe (ablative singular)
grȳpibus (ablative plural)
grȳps (singular vocative)
grȳpēs (plural vocative)
grȳpes (plural vocative)
grips (alternative)
grȳphus (alternative)
grȳphō (alternative)

Asturian: grifu

Catalan: griu, grif, grifó

→ Danish: grib

Italian: grifone, grifo

→ Norwegian: gribb

desctree

Old French: griffon, gripun, gripoun
→ Middle English: griffoun, griphon, grefoun, gryffoun, gryffone, gryffon, grifown, griphonne, gryffyn, griffone, grefyne
English: griffin, griffon, gryphon
→ Welsh: griffon
French: griffon

→ Old High German: grifo
Middle High German: grīfe
German: Greif

→ Old Irish: gríb
Irish: gríobh
Manx: greeu
Scottish Gaelic: grib

Portuguese: grifo

Spanish: grifo


hippocentaurus

la-noun

hippocentaurus m (genitive hippocentaurī); second declension

hippocentaurī (genitive)
hippocentaurus (nominative singular)
hippocentaurī (nominative plural)
hippocentaurī (genitive singular)
hippocentaurōrum (genitive plural)
hippocentaurō (dative singular)
hippocentaurīs (dative plural)
hippocentaurum (accusative singular)
hippocentaurōs (accusative plural)
hippocentaurō (ablative singular)
hippocentaurīs (ablative plural)
hippocentaure (singular vocative)
hippocentaurī (plural vocative)

→ English: hippocentaur

→ French: hippocentaure

[hɪpːɔkɛn̪ˈt̪äu̯rʊs̠]

From Ancient Greek ἱπποκένταυρος (hippokéntauros).

der

ἱπποκένταυρος


versipellis

la-noun

versipellis m (genitive versipellis); third declension

versipellis (genitive)
versipellis (nominative singular)
versipellēs (nominative plural)
versipellis (genitive singular)
versipellium (genitive plural)
versipellī (dative singular)
versipellibus (dative plural)
versipellem (accusative singular)
versipellēs (accusative plural)
versipellīs (accusative plural)
versipelle (ablative singular)
versipellibus (ablative plural)
versipellis (singular vocative)
versipellēs (plural vocative)
vorsipellis (alternative)

→ Italian: versipelle (learned)

[u̯ɛrs̠ɪˈpɛlːʲɪs̠]

From vertō (“turn”) + pellis (“skin, hide”).

(fantasy, mythology) a werewolf, lycanthrope


saga

sāga f (genitive sāgae); first declension

sāga (canonical feminine)
sāgae (genitive)
sāga (nominative singular)
sāgae (nominative plural)
sāgae (genitive singular)
sāgārum (genitive plural)
sāgae (dative singular)
sāgīs (dative plural)
sāgam (accusative singular)
sāgās (accusative plural)
sāgā (ablative singular)
sāgīs (ablative plural)
sāga (singular vocative)
sāgae (plural vocative)

Italian: saga

→ Translingual: Saga

Substantivisation of the female form of sāgus (“soothsaying”).

a female soothsayer, diviner, fortune-teller, prophetess, witch


Pegasus

la-proper noun

Pēgasus m sg (genitive Pēgasī); second declension

Pēgasus (canonical masculine singular)
Pēgasī (genitive)
Pēgasus (nominative singular)
Pēgasī (genitive singular)
Pēgasō (dative singular)
Pēgasum (accusative singular)
Pēgasō (ablative singular)
Pēgase (singular vocative)

[ˈpeːɡäs̠ʊs̠]

[ˈpɛːɡäs̬us]


numen

la-noun

nūmen n (genitive nūminis); third declension

nūmen (canonical neuter)
nūminis (genitive)
nūmen (nominative singular)
nūmina (nominative plural)
nūminis (genitive singular)
nūminum (genitive plural)
nūminī (dative singular)
nūminibus (dative plural)
nūmen (accusative singular)
nūmina (accusative plural)
nūmine (ablative singular)
nūminibus (ablative plural)
nūmen (singular vocative)
nūmina (plural vocative)
noumen (alternative)

→ English: numen, numinous

→ Italian: nume

→ Portuguese: nume, númen

→ Spanish: numen

* Could be simply an action noun of *nuō, for *nuimen, from *nuō + -men, thus meaning "a nodding with the head", "a nod", "command", "will" (as nūtus), with the particular meaning of "the divine will", "the will or power of the gods", "divine sway".
* Others suggest the Ancient Greek word νοούμενον (nooúmenon) ("an influence perceptible by mind but not by senses"), from νοέω (noéō), was borrowed into Early Latin as the word noumen, whose spelling changed to numen in Classical Latin.

divinity (Georges Dumézil argues this is a modern meaning and not one from the Classical period, where it was either attributed to particular gods or other entities, such as in numen Cereris or numen dei, or wrongly interpreted)


Siren

Sīrēn f (genitive Sīrēnis); third declension

Sīrēn (canonical feminine)
Sīrēnis (genitive)
Sīrēn (nominative singular)
Sīrēnēs (nominative plural)
Sīrēnis (genitive singular)
Sīrēnum (genitive plural)
Sīrēnī (dative singular)
Sīrēnibus (dative plural)
Sīrēnem (accusative singular)
Sīrēnēs (accusative plural)
Sīrēne (ablative singular)
Sīrēnibus (ablative plural)
Sīrēn (singular vocative)
Sīrēnēs (plural vocative)
Sīrēdonēs (alternative)
Sīrēna (alternative)
Sērēna (alternative)

Asturian: serena, sirena

Catalan: sirena

English: Siren, siren

desctree

French: sirène
→ Persian: سیرن (siren)
→ Portuguese: sirene
→ Turkish: siren

→ Galician: sirena

German: Sirene

Irish: Síréana

Italian: sirena, serena

Old French: sereine

Old Galician-Portuguese: serẽa
Galician: serea
Portuguese: sereia

→ Portuguese: sirena

Romanian: sirenă

Spanish: sirena, serena, serea

(Greek mythology, mythology) a siren, one of the mythical birds with faces of virgins, that dwelt on the southern coast of Italy, where, with their sweet voices, they enticed ashore those who were sailing by, and then killed them.


lamia

la-noun

lamia f (genitive lamiae); first declension

lamiae (genitive)
lamia (nominative singular)
lamiae (nominative plural)
lamiae (genitive singular)
lamiārum (genitive plural)
lamiae (dative singular)
lamiīs (dative plural)
lamiam (accusative singular)
lamiās (accusative plural)
lamiā (ablative singular)
lamiīs (ablative plural)
lamia (singular vocative)
lamiae (plural vocative)

desc

→ Translingual: lamia (used in names of fish)

→ English: lamia (learned)

→ Galician: lamia (learned)

→ Italian: lamia (learned)

From Ancient Greek λάμια (lámia), Λάμια (Lámia).


Triton

la-noun

Trītōn m (genitive Trītōnis); third declension

Trītōn (canonical masculine)
Trītōnis (genitive)
Trītōn (nominative singular)
Trītōnes (nominative plural)
Trītōnēs (nominative plural)
Trītōnis (genitive singular)
Trītōnos (genitive singular)
Trītōnum (genitive plural)
Trītōnī (dative singular)
Trītōnibus (dative plural)
Trītōna (accusative singular)
Trītōnem (accusative singular)
Trītōnas (accusative plural)
Trītōnēs (accusative plural)
Trītōne (ablative singular)
Trītōnibus (ablative plural)
Trītōn (singular vocative)
Trītōnes (plural vocative)
Trītōnēs (plural vocative)


monoceros

monocerōs m (genitive monocerōtis); third declension

monocerōs (canonical masculine)
monocerōtis (genitive)
monocerōs (nominative singular)
monocerōtēs (nominative plural)
monocerōtis (genitive singular)
monocerōtum (genitive plural)
monocerōtī (dative singular)
monocerōtibus (dative plural)
monocerōtem (accusative singular)
monocerōtēs (accusative plural)
monocerōte (ablative singular)
monocerōtibus (ablative plural)
monocerōs (singular vocative)
monocerōtēs (plural vocative)

→ English: monoceros

→ Spanish: monocerote (learned)

From Ancient Greek μονόκερως (monókerōs, “having one horn”, from μόνος (mónos, “one”) + κέρας (kéras, “horn”)).


virga

la-noun

virga f (genitive virgae); first declension

virgae (genitive)
virga (nominative singular)
virgae (nominative plural)
virgae (genitive singular)
virgārum (genitive plural)
virgae (dative singular)
virgīs (dative plural)
virgam (accusative singular)
virgās (accusative plural)
virgā (ablative singular)
virgīs (ablative plural)
virga (singular vocative)
virgae (plural vocative)

Ancient Greek: βέργαι (bérgai)

Aromanian: veargã

Asturian: verga

Catalan: verga

English: virga

Galician: verga

Greek: βέργα (vérga)

Hungarian: virgács

Istriot: virga

Italian: verga

Megleno-Romanian: veargă

Norman: vèrgue

→ French: vergue

Occitan: vèrga

Old French: verge

→ English: verge

French: verge

Piedmontese: verga, vërga

Portuguese: verga, virga

Romanian: vargă

Sicilian: vìriga, vìrija

Spanish: verga

From Proto-Italic *wizgā, probably from Proto-Indo-European *wisgeh₂ (“flexible rod or stick”); possibly cognate with Proto-Germanic *wiskaz (“bundle of hay or straw, wisp”). The Proto-Indo-European term is sometimes taken as an extension of Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to produce, procreate”), or alternatively from a stem *weyḱs- (see *weyḱ-). Regardless, it is probably related to viscum.

nowrap

<i class="Latn mention" lang="ine-pro">*weyḱ-</i>)

(Medieval Latin) a unit of measurement, a rod; of either 3 feet in length, or 16½ feet, also known as a pole or perch; a square of land of the same length and breadth


cothurnus

la-noun

cothurnus m (genitive cothurnī); second declension

cothurnī (genitive)
cothurnus (nominative singular)
cothurnī (nominative plural)
cothurnī (genitive singular)
cothurnōrum (genitive plural)
cothurnō (dative singular)
cothurnīs (dative plural)
cothurnum (accusative singular)
cothurnōs (accusative plural)
cothurnō (ablative singular)
cothurnīs (ablative plural)
cothurne (singular vocative)
cothurnī (plural vocative)

→ English: cothurn (learned)

→ French: cothurne (learned)

→ German: Kothurn (learned)

→ Italian: coturno (learned)

→ Polish: koturn (learned)

→ Russian: коту́рн (kotúrn) (learned)

→ Spanish: coturno (learned)

[kɔˈt̪ʰʊrnʊs̠]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόθορνος (kóthornos).


satura

satura f (genitive saturae); first declension

saturae (genitive)
satura (nominative singular)
saturae (nominative plural)
saturae (genitive singular)
saturārum (genitive plural)
saturae (dative singular)
saturīs (dative plural)
saturam (accusative singular)
saturās (accusative plural)
saturā (ablative singular)
saturīs (ablative plural)
satura (singular vocative)
saturae (plural vocative)
satira (alternative)
satyra (alternative)

From the phrase lanx satura (literally “dish full”), from satur. Later influenced by Ancient Greek σάτυρος (sáturos, “satyr”), on the mistaken notion that it referred to the σατυρικὸν δράμα (saturikòn dráma, “satyr drama”), and existing in its alternative forms (cf. supra). Compare Latin satum.

dish filled with various kinds of fruits, plate of fruit, food composed of various ingredients, a mixture, medley, olio

satire, a species of poetry, originally dramatic and afterwards didactic, peculiar to the Romans


comoedia

cōmoedia f (genitive cōmoediae); first declension

cōmoedia (canonical feminine)
cōmoediae (genitive)
cōmoedia (nominative singular)
cōmoediae (nominative plural)
cōmoediae (genitive singular)
cōmoediārum (genitive plural)
cōmoediae (dative singular)
cōmoediīs (dative plural)
cōmoediam (accusative singular)
cōmoediās (accusative plural)
cōmoediā (ablative singular)
cōmoediīs (ablative plural)
cōmoedia (singular vocative)
cōmoediae (plural vocative)

Asturian: comedia

Catalan: comèdia

Czech: komedie

Dutch: komedie

Danish: komedie

English: comedy

French: comédie

Galician: comedia

German: Komödie

Italian: commedia

Polish: komedia

Portuguese: comédia

Romanian: comedie

Sicilian: cummedia

→ Spanish: comedia

→ Cebuano: komedya

Venetan: komedie

From Ancient Greek κωμῳδία (kōmōidía), from κῶμος (kômos, “revel, carousing”) + either ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”) or ἀοιδός (aoidós, “singer, bard”), both from ἀείδω (aeídō, “I sing”).


epicus

la-adj

epicus (feminine epica, neuter epicum); first/second-declension adjective

epica (feminine)
epicum (neuter)
epicus (masculine nominative singular)
epica (feminine nominative singular)
epicum (neuter nominative singular)
epicī (masculine nominative singular)
epicae (feminine nominative plural)
epica (neuter nominative plural)
epicī (genitive masculine singular)
epicae (feminine genitive singular)
epicī (genitive neuter singular)
epicōrum (genitive masculine singular)
epicārum (feminine genitive plural)
epicōrum (genitive neuter plural)
epicō (dative masculine singular)
epicae (dative feminine singular)
epicō (dative neuter singular)
epicīs (dative feminine masculine neuter)
epicum (accusative masculine singular)
epicam (accusative feminine singular)
epicum (accusative neuter singular)
epicōs (accusative masculine singular)
epicās (accusative feminine plural)
epica (accusative neuter plural)
epicō (ablative masculine singular)
epicā (ablative feminine singular)
epicō (ablative neuter singular)
epicīs (ablative feminine masculine neuter)
epice (masculine singular vocative)
epica (feminine singular vocative)
epicum (neuter singular vocative)
epicī (masculine singular vocative)
epicae (feminine plural vocative)
epica (neuter plural vocative)

French: épique

→ English: epic

Galician: épico

Italian: epico

Portuguese: épico

Romanian: epic

Spanish: épico


unicornis

la-noun

ūnicornis m (genitive ūnicornis); third declension

ūnicornis (canonical masculine)
ūnicornis (genitive)
ūnicornis (nominative singular)
ūnicornēs (nominative plural)
ūnicornis (genitive singular)
ūnicornium (genitive plural)
ūnicornī (dative singular)
ūnicornibus (dative plural)
ūnicornem (accusative singular)
ūnicornēs (accusative plural)
ūnicornīs (accusative plural)
ūnicorne (ablative singular)
ūnicornibus (ablative plural)
ūnicornis (singular vocative)
ūnicornēs (plural vocative)

→ Catalan: unicorn

→ Italian: unicorno, alicorno, liocorno

desctree

→ Old French: unicorne
Anglo-Norman: unicorne
→ Middle English: unicorne, unycorne, unycorn, unicorn, unikorn
English: unicorn
Scots: unicorn
French: licorne

→ Old High German: einhurno, einhorn, einhorno, einhurn (calque)
Middle High German: einhurne, einhorn
German: Einhorn
Yiddish: איינהאָרן (eynhorn)

→ Spanish: unicornio

From ūnus (“one”) + cornū (“horn”) + -is, a calque of Ancient Greek μονόκερως (monókerōs).


venefica

la-noun

venēfica f (genitive venēficae); first declension

venēfica (canonical feminine)
venēficae (genitive)
venēfica (nominative singular)
venēficae (nominative plural)
venēficae (genitive singular)
venēficārum (genitive plural)
venēficae (dative singular)
venēficīs (dative plural)
venēficam (accusative singular)
venēficās (accusative plural)
venēficā (ablative singular)
venēficīs (ablative plural)
venēfica (singular vocative)
venēficae (plural vocative)

Substantive from venēficus (“poisonous; magical”).


phantasma

phantasma n (genitive phantasmatis); third declension

phantasmatis (genitive)
phantasma (nominative singular)
phantasmata (nominative plural)
phantasmatis (genitive singular)
phantasmatum (genitive plural)
phantasmatī (dative singular)
phantasmatibus (dative plural)
phantasma (accusative singular)
phantasmata (accusative plural)
phantasmate (ablative singular)
phantasmatibus (ablative plural)
phantasma (singular vocative)
phantasmata (plural vocative)

Old Catalan: fantauma

desctree

Old French: fantosme
French: fantôme (see there for further descendants)
Norman: fantôme
→ Middle Dutch: fantome
Dutch: fantoom
→ Middle English: fantome, fantam, fantem, fanteme, fantesme, fantime, fantom, fantosme, fantoum, fantum, fantym
English: phantom, phantasm
Scots: phanton

Old Occitan: fantauma

Occitan: fantauma

⇒ Portuguese: abantesma

Borrowings

→ Albanian: fantazmë

→ Asturian: pantasma

→ Catalan: fantasma

→ English: phantasm

→ French: phantasme

→ Galician: pantasma

→ Italian: fantasma

→ Piedmontese: fantasma

→ Portuguese: fantasma

→ Romanian: fantasmă

→ Sardinian: pantàsima

→ Serbo-Croatian: fantazma

→ Spanish: fantasma
→ Cebuano: pantasma

[pʰän̪ˈt̪äs̠mä]

From Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma).


historicus

la-adj

historicus (feminine historica, neuter historicum); first/second-declension adjective

historica (feminine)
historicum (neuter)
historicus (masculine nominative singular)
historica (feminine nominative singular)
historicum (neuter nominative singular)
historicī (masculine nominative singular)
historicae (feminine nominative plural)
historica (neuter nominative plural)
historicī (genitive masculine singular)
historicae (feminine genitive singular)
historicī (genitive neuter singular)
historicōrum (genitive masculine singular)
historicārum (feminine genitive plural)
historicōrum (genitive neuter plural)
historicō (dative masculine singular)
historicae (dative feminine singular)
historicō (dative neuter singular)
historicīs (dative feminine masculine neuter)
historicum (accusative masculine singular)
historicam (accusative feminine singular)
historicum (accusative neuter singular)
historicōs (accusative masculine singular)
historicās (accusative feminine plural)
historica (accusative neuter plural)
historicō (ablative masculine singular)
historicā (ablative feminine singular)
historicō (ablative neuter singular)
historicīs (ablative feminine masculine neuter)
historice (masculine singular vocative)
historica (feminine singular vocative)
historicum (neuter singular vocative)
historicī (masculine singular vocative)
historicae (feminine plural vocative)
historica (neuter plural vocative)
hystoricus (alternative)

Catalan: històric

→ English: historic, historical

French: historique

Galician: histórico

Italian: storico

Occitan: istoric

Piedmontese: stòrich

Portuguese: histórico

Romanian: istoric

Spanish: histórico

[hɪs̠ˈt̪ɔrɪkʊs̠]

From historia (“history”) + -icus (adjective-forming suffix), from Ancient Greek ἱστορικός (historikós, “exact; historical”).

der

1826, Stanislaus Julien translating Mencius as Meng Tseu, p. 46

[The Spring and Autumn Annals] are written in the historical style.


tragoedia

la-noun

tragoedia f (genitive tragoediae); first declension

tragoediae (genitive)
tragoedia (nominative singular)
tragoediae (nominative plural)
tragoediae (genitive singular)
tragoediārum (genitive plural)
tragoediae (dative singular)
tragoediīs (dative plural)
tragoediam (accusative singular)
tragoediās (accusative plural)
tragoediā (ablative singular)
tragoediīs (ablative plural)
tragoedia (singular vocative)
tragoediae (plural vocative)

English: tragedy

French: tragédie

German: Tragödie

Italian: tragedia

Polish: tragedia

Portuguese: tragédia

Romanian: tragedie

Russian: траге́дия (tragédija)

Spanish: tragedia

[t̪räˈd͡ʒɛːd̪iä]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τραγῳδῐ́ᾱ (tragōidĭ́ā), from τράγος (trágos, “male goat”) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).


veneficus

la-adj

venēficus (feminine venēfica, neuter venēficum); first/second-declension adjective

venēficus (canonical)
venēfica (feminine)
venēficum (neuter)
venēficus (masculine nominative singular)
venēfica (feminine nominative singular)
venēficum (neuter nominative singular)
venēficī (masculine nominative singular)
venēficae (feminine nominative plural)
venēfica (neuter nominative plural)
venēficī (genitive masculine singular)
venēficae (feminine genitive singular)
venēficī (genitive neuter singular)
venēficōrum (genitive masculine singular)
venēficārum (feminine genitive plural)
venēficōrum (genitive neuter plural)
venēficō (dative masculine singular)
venēficae (dative feminine singular)
venēficō (dative neuter singular)
venēficīs (dative feminine masculine neuter)
venēficum (accusative masculine singular)
venēficam (accusative feminine singular)
venēficum (accusative neuter singular)
venēficōs (accusative masculine singular)
venēficās (accusative feminine plural)
venēfica (accusative neuter plural)
venēficō (ablative masculine singular)
venēficā (ablative feminine singular)
venēficō (ablative neuter singular)
venēficīs (ablative feminine masculine neuter)
venēfice (masculine singular vocative)
venēfica (feminine singular vocative)
venēficum (neuter singular vocative)
venēficī (masculine singular vocative)
venēficae (feminine plural vocative)
venēfica (neuter plural vocative)

Italian: venefico

Portuguese: venéfico

Spanish: venéfico

Derived from venē(num) (“poison”; “potion”) + -ficus (suffix denoting making).


veneficus

la-noun

venēficus m (genitive venēficī); second declension

venēficus (canonical masculine)
venēficī (genitive)
venēficus (nominative singular)
venēficī (nominative plural)
venēficī (genitive singular)
venēficōrum (genitive plural)
venēficō (dative singular)
venēficīs (dative plural)
venēficum (accusative singular)
venēficōs (accusative plural)
venēficō (ablative singular)
venēficīs (ablative plural)
venēfice (singular vocative)
venēficī (plural vocative)


lemures

lemurēs m pl (genitive lemurum); third declension

lemurēs (canonical masculine plural)
lemurum (genitive)
lemurēs (nominative plural)
lemurum (genitive plural)
lemuribus (dative plural)
lemurēs (accusative plural)
lemuribus (ablative plural)
lemurēs (plural vocative)

English: lemur, lemures

French: lémur, lémure

[ˈɫ̪ɛmʊreːs̠]

According to de Vaan, from a substrate source along with Ancient Greek Λαμία (Lamía), possibly Etruscan or Anatolian. The two words may have existed as a late Proto-Indo-European stem *lem- (“ghost, nocturnal spirit”).


gryphus

grȳphus m (genitive grȳphī); second declension

grȳphus (canonical masculine)
grȳphī (genitive)
grȳphus (nominative singular)
grȳphī (nominative plural)
grȳphī (genitive singular)
grȳphōrum (genitive plural)
grȳphō (dative singular)
grȳphīs (dative plural)
grȳphum (accusative singular)
grȳphōs (accusative plural)
grȳphō (ablative singular)
grȳphīs (ablative plural)
grȳphe (singular vocative)
grȳphī (plural vocative)

[ˈɡryːpʰʊs̠]


virlupus

virlupus m (genitive virlupī); second declension

virlupī (genitive)
virlupus (nominative singular)
virlupī (nominative plural)
virlupī (genitive singular)
virlupōrum (genitive plural)
virlupō (dative singular)
virlupīs (dative plural)
virlupum (accusative singular)
virlupōs (accusative plural)
virlupō (ablative singular)
virlupīs (ablative plural)
virlupe (singular vocative)
virlupī (plural vocative)

[ˈu̯ɪrɫ̪ʊpʊs̠]

From vir (“man”) + lupus (“wolf”), a calque of Old English werewulf, which it translates in the Consiliatio Cnuti (a twelfth-century Latin translation of Cnut’s laws).

(Medieval Latin) a man-wolf, a werewolf, a lycanthrope


unicornuus

ūnicornuus m (genitive ūnicornuī); second declension

ūnicornuus (canonical masculine)
ūnicornuī (genitive)
ūnicornuus (nominative singular)
ūnicornuī (nominative plural)
ūnicornuī (genitive singular)
ūnicornuōrum (genitive plural)
ūnicornuō (dative singular)
ūnicornuīs (dative plural)
ūnicornuum (accusative singular)
ūnicornuōs (accusative plural)
ūnicornuō (ablative singular)
ūnicornuīs (ablative plural)
ūnicornue (singular vocative)
ūnicornuī (plural vocative)

From ūnus (“one”) + cornū (“horn”) + -us.


tragicomoedia

tragicōmoedia f (genitive tragicōmoediae); first declension

tragicōmoedia (canonical feminine)
tragicōmoediae (genitive)
tragicōmoedia (nominative singular)
tragicōmoediae (nominative plural)
tragicōmoediae (genitive singular)
tragicōmoediārum (genitive plural)
tragicōmoediae (dative singular)
tragicōmoediīs (dative plural)
tragicōmoediam (accusative singular)
tragicōmoediās (accusative plural)
tragicōmoediā (ablative singular)
tragicōmoediīs (ablative plural)
tragicōmoedia (singular vocative)
tragicōmoediae (plural vocative)
tragicocōmoedia (alternative)

desctree

→ Italian: tragicommedia (learned)
→ Middle French: tragicomédie
French: tragicomédie
→ English: tragicomedy

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τραγικοκωμῳδία (tragikokōmōidía), with haplology. By surface analysis, tragicus (“tragic”) + cōmoedia (“comedy”) with haplology.

bor+

τραγικοκωμῳδία

surf

faciam ut commixta sit: sit tragicomoedia; / nam me perpetuo facere ut sit comoedia, / reges quo veniant et di, non par arbitror.

c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Amphitryon 20.59

I'll make it a mix: a tragicomedy; for I do not find it right for me to make it a comedy through and through, where kings and gods appear.