Posidonia
See also: posidonia
Translingual edit
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Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Proper noun edit
Posidonia f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Posidoniaceae – the seagrasses.
Hypernyms edit
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina - subphylum; "Angiospermae" - superclass; Magnoliopsida - class; Lilianae - superorder; Alismatales - order; Posidoniaceae - family
Hyponyms edit
- (genus): Posidonia oceanica - type species
See also edit
References edit
Posidonia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Posidonia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Posidonia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Posidonia at Tropicos
- Posidonia at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Posidonia at The Plant List
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ποσειδώνια (Poseidṓnia).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /po.siːˈdoː.ni.a/, [pɔs̠iːˈd̪oːniä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /po.siˈdo.ni.a/, [pos̬iˈd̪ɔːniä]
Proper noun edit
Posīdōnia f sg (genitive Posīdōniae); first declension
- Synonym of Paestum (an ancient Greek city in Magna Graecia, on the coast of present-day Campania in southern Italy)
Declension edit
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative | Posīdōnia |
| Genitive | Posīdōniae |
| Dative | Posīdōniae |
| Accusative | Posīdōniam |
| Ablative | Posīdōniā |
| Vocative | Posīdōnia |
| Locative | Posīdōniae |
References edit
- “Pŏsīdōnĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Pŏsīdōnĭa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,205.