antiae
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin antiae (“forelock”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
antiae pl (normally plural, singular antia)
- (zoology) The two projecting feathered angles of the forehead of some birds; the frontal points.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “antiae”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos.
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Noun edit
antiae f pl (genitive antiārum); first declension (plural only)
Declension edit
First-declension noun, plural only.
Case | Plural |
---|---|
Nominative | antiae |
Genitive | antiārum |
Dative | antiīs |
Accusative | antiās |
Ablative | antiīs |
Vocative | antiae |
Descendants edit
- → English: antiae (learned)
References edit
- “antiae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press