batrachites

English

Noun

batrachites

1. plural of batrachite

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βατραχίτης (batrakhítēs), from βάτραχος (bátrakhos, “frog”) + -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ba.traˈkʰiː.teːs/, [bät̪räˈkʰiːt̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ba.traˈki.tes/, [bät̪räˈkiːt̪es]

Noun

batrachītēs m (genitive batrachītae); first declension

1. A kind of frog-colored precious stone

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	batrachītēs	batrachītae
Genitive	batrachītae	batrachītārum
Dative	batrachītae	batrachītīs
Accusative	batrachītēn	batrachītās
Ablative	batrachītē	batrachītīs
Vocative	batrachītē	batrachītae

Descendants

• English: batrachite

References

• “batrachites”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• batrachites in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.