Luca bos
Latin
editEtymology
editLūca (“Lucanian”) + bōs (“cow”), to mean elephant because the Romans first saw elephants in Heraclea, a city in Lucania, as part of Pyrrhus of Epirus's army.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈluː.ka boːs/, [ˈɫ̪uːkä boːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlu.ka bos/, [ˈluːkä bɔs]
Noun
editLūca bōs f (irregular, variously declined, genitive Lūcae bovis); first declension, third declension
Declension
editFirst-declension noun with a third-declension noun (irregular).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | Lūca bōs | Lūcae bovēs |
Genitive | Lūcae bovis | Lūcārum boum |
Dative | Lūcae bovī | Lūcīs bōbus Lūcīs būbus |
Accusative | Lūcam bovem | Lūcās bovēs |
Ablative | Lūcā bove | Lūcīs bōbus Lūcīs būbus |
Vocative | Lūca bōs | Lūcae bovēs |
Synonyms
editDerived terms
editReferences
edit- “Lūca bōs”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press