addax
See also: Addax
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin addax, apparently from an African language.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
addax (plural addaxes or addax)
- A large African antelope (Addax nasomaculatus) with long, corkscrewing horns which lives in the desert. [from 17th c.]
- Synonyms: screwhorn antelope, white antelope
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, page 53:
- In her hand, the haunch of an addax, still hissing from the spit.
Translations edit
Addax nasomaculatus
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See also edit
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Latin addax, apparently from an African language.
Noun edit
addax m (invariable)
Related terms edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From an African source.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈad.daks/, [ˈäd̪ːäks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈad.daks/, [ˈäd̪ːäks]
Noun edit
addax m (genitive addacis); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | addax | addacēs |
Genitive | addacis | addacum |
Dative | addacī | addacibus |
Accusative | addacem | addacēs |
Ablative | addace | addacibus |
Vocative | addax | addacēs |
Synonyms edit
References edit
- “addax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- addax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.