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Etymology edit

From New Latin Trochus, from Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós, wheel).

Noun edit

trochus (plural trochuses or trochi)

  1. (malacology) Any member of the genus Trochus, or more generally of the family Trochidae; in non-specialist usage, including species formerly classified in that family, particularly Tectus niloticus.

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Latin edit

Etymology edit

From Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós, wheel).

Noun edit

trochus m (genitive trochī); second declension

  1. iron hoop

Declension edit

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative trochus trochī
Genitive trochī trochōrum
Dative trochō trochīs
Accusative trochum trochōs
Ablative trochō trochīs
Vocative troche trochī

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  • trochus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • trochus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • trochus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • trochus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • trochus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • trochus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • trochus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin