Tmolus
Translingual
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek Τμῶλος (Tmôlos, “a king of Lydia”).
Proper noun
editTmolus m
- A taxonomic genus within the family Lycaenidae – certain neotropical butterflies.
Hypernyms
edit- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Lepidoptera – order; Glossata - suborder; Heteroneura - infraorder; Papilionoidea - superfamily; Lycaenidae - family; Theclinae - subfamily; Theclini - tribe
Hyponyms
edit- (genus): Tmolus echion - type species; for others see Tmolus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies .
References
edit- Tmolus (butterfly) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Tmolus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Tmolus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek Τμῶλος (Tmôlos).
Proper noun
editTmolus
- (Greek mythology) A king of Lydia and husband to Omphale.
- (mythology) A mountain, Mount Tmolus, the modern Bozdağ.
- a. 1823 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Hymn of Pan”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 169:
- The cicale above in the lime, / And the lizards below in the grass, / Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, / Listening to my sweet pipings.
Anagrams
editLatin
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek Τμῶλος (Tmôlos).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈtmoː.lus/, [ˈt̪moːɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtmo.lus/, [ˈt̪mɔːlus]
Proper noun
editTmōlus m sg (genitive Tmōlī); second declension
Declension
editSecond-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Tmōlus |
Genitive | Tmōlī |
Dative | Tmōlō |
Accusative | Tmōlum |
Ablative | Tmōlō |
Vocative | Tmōle |
Derived terms
editReferences
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- mul:Taxonomic names (genus)
- English terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
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- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Greek mythology
- en:Mythology
- English terms with quotations
- Latin terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin proper nouns
- Latin second declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the second declension
- Latin masculine nouns
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- la:Turkey