{"senses": [{"examples": [{"text": "Recte autem monet Strack, illam Piezatorum speciem, quarii Aristoteles nomine Ichneumonis designavit, nullo modo ad nostros Ichneumones referri posse, sed Sphegem esse, nam larva ejus haud in vivis erucis insectisve degit, sed ille Aristotelis Ichneumon araneas perimit easque fert in nidum suum, id quod haud Ichneumonum nostratium sed Sphegum moribus respondet.", "ref": "1829, Johann Ludwig Christian Carl Gravenhorst, “Caput I. Historia culturae Ichneumonidum.”, in Ichneumonologia europaea., volume 1, page 2:", "english": "But Strack rightly points out that that species of piezator, which Aristotle designated by the name of Ichneumon, can in no way be referred to our Ichneumons, but is a Sphex, for its larva does not live on living caterpillars or insects, but that Ichneumon of Aristotle kills spiders and carries them to its nest, which corresponds not to the habits of our Ichneumons but to the Sphexes.", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[155, 162], [337, 344]], "translation": "But Strack rightly points out that that species of piezator, which Aristotle designated by the name of Ichneumon, can in no way be referred to our Ichneumons, but is a Sphex, for its larva does not live on living caterpillars or insects, but that Ichneumon of Aristotle kills spiders and carries them to its nest, which corresponds not to the habits of our Ichneumons but to the Sphexes.", "bold_translation_offsets": [[168, 173], [379, 384], [379, 386]]}], "topics": ["biology", "natural-sciences", "taxonomy"], "categories": ["Latin 1-syllable words", "Latin entries with incorrect language header", "Latin lemmas", "Latin masculine nouns", "Latin masculine nouns in the third declension", "Latin nouns", "Latin terms borrowed from Translingual", "Latin terms derived from Translingual", "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation", "Latin terms with quotations", "Latin third declension nouns", "Pages with 2 entries", "Pages with entries", "la:Hymenopterans", "la:Taxonomic names"], "links": [["taxonomy", "taxonomy"], ["sphex", "sphex"], ["Sphex", "Sphex#Translingual"]], "raw_glosses": ["(taxonomy) A sphex; a wasp of the genus Sphex."], "glosses": ["A sphex; a wasp of the genus Sphex."], "tags": ["declension-3"]}], "pos": "noun", "head_templates": [{"name": "la-noun", "args": {"1": "Sphēx/Sphēg<3.both>", "g": "m"}, "expansion": "Sphēx m (genitive Sphēgis); third declension"}], "forms": [{"form": "Sphēx", "tags": ["canonical", "masculine"]}, {"form": "Sphēgis", "links": [["Sphēgis", "Sphegis"]], "tags": ["genitive"]}, {"form": "no-table-tags", "source": "declension", "tags": ["table-tags"]}, {"form": "la-ndecl", "source": "declension", "tags": ["inflection-template"]}, {"form": "Sphēx", "tags": ["nominative", "singular"], "source": "declension", "links": [["Sphēx", "Sphex#Latin"]]}, {"form": "Sphēgēs", "tags": ["nominative", "plural"], "source": "declension", "links": [["Sphēgēs", "Spheges#Latin"]]}, {"form": "Sphēgis", "tags": ["genitive", "singular"], "source": "declension", "links": [["Sphēgis", "Sphegis#Latin"]]}, {"form": "Sphēgum", "tags": ["genitive", "plural"], "source": "declension", "links": [["Sphēgum", "Sphegum#Latin"]]}, {"form": "Sphēgī", "tags": ["dative", "singular"], "source": "declension", "links": [["Sphēgī", "Sphegi#Latin"]]}, {"form": "Sphēgibus", "tags": ["dative", "plural"], "source": "declension", "links": [["Sphēgibus", "Sphegibus#Latin"]]}, {"form": "Sphēgem", "tags": ["accusative", "singular"], "source": "declension", "links": [["Sphēgem", "Sphegem#Latin"]]}, {"form": "Sphēgēs", "tags": ["accusative", "plural"], "source": "declension", "links": [["Sphēgēs", "Spheges#Latin"]]}, {"form": "Sphēge", "tags": ["ablative", "singular"], "source": "declension", "links": [["Sphēge", "Sphege#Latin"]]}, {"form": "Sphēgibus", "tags": ["ablative", "plural"], "source": "declension", "links": [["Sphēgibus", "Sphegibus#Latin"]]}, {"form": "Sphēx", "tags": ["singular", "vocative"], "source": "declension", "links": [["Sphēx", "Sphex#Latin"]]}, {"form": "Sphēgēs", "tags": ["plural", "vocative"], "source": "declension", "links": [["Sphēgēs", "Spheges#Latin"]]}], "inflection_templates": [{"name": "la-ndecl", "args": {"1": "Sphēx/Sphēg<3.both>"}}], "etymology_text": "Borrowed from translingual Sphex.", "etymology_templates": [{"name": "bor+", "args": {"1": "la", "2": "mul", "3": "Sphex"}, "expansion": "Borrowed from translingual Sphex"}], "sounds": [{"tags": ["Classical-Latin"], "ipa": "[ˈspʰeːks]"}, {"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical", "ipa": "[ˈsfɛks]"}], "word": "Sphex", "lang": "Latin", "lang_code": "la"}