delphinus

See also: Delphinus

Latin

Alternative forms

• delphīn

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δελφίς (delphís).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /delˈpʰiː.nus/, [d̪ɛɫ̪ˈpʰiːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /delˈfi.nus/, [d̪elˈfiːnus]

• Audio (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical):

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Noun

delphīnus m (genitive delphīnī); second declension

1. a dolphin (an aquatic mammal of the family Delphinidae or Platanistidae)
2. the constellation Delphinus
3. a kind of decorative furniture, possibly decorated with dolphins
4. (Medieval Latin) dauphin (the eldest son of the king of France)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	delphīnus	delphīnī
genitive	delphīnī	delphīnōrum
dative	delphīnō	delphīnīs
accusative	delphīnum	delphīnōs
ablative	delphīnō	delphīnīs
vocative	delphīne	delphīnī

Descendants

• Asturian: llofín
• Catalan: dofí, delfí
• Dutch: dolfijn
• French: dauphin
• Galician: delfín
• → German: Delphin, Delfin (1996 spelling reform, now roughly equally common)
  • → Bulgarian: делфи́н (delfín)
  • → Czech: delfín
  • → Macedonian: делфин (delfin)
  • → Middle Russian: дельфи́нъ (delʹfín)
    • Russian: дельфи́н (delʹfín)
      • → Armenian: դելֆին (delfin)
      • → Bezhta: делфин (delfin)
      • → Kazakh: дельфин (delfin)
  • → Polish: delfin
    • → Old Ruthenian: делфи́нъ (delfín)
      • Belarusian: дэльфі́н (delʹfín)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: делфи́н (delfýn)
      • Ukrainian: дельфі́н (delʹfín)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: дѐлфӣн

    Latin script: dèlfīn

  • → Slovak: delfín
  • → Swedish: delfin
  • → Upper Sorbian: delfin
• Istriot: dulfeîn
• Italian: delfino
• Ligurian: delfìn, drafìn
• → Middle English: delphyn, delfyne, delphin, dolphyn
  • English: dolphin
  • Scots: dowphin
  • → Welsh: dolffin
• Occitan: dalfin
• Old Galician-Portuguese: golfinno
  • Galician: golfiño
  • Portuguese: golfinho
• Portuguese: delfim
• Romagnol: dilfòin
• Romanian: delfin
• Romansch: delfin
• Sardinian: gorfinu, grufinu, gurfinu
• Sicilian: dirfinu, derfinu, draffinu, darfinu
• Spanish: delfín, golfín
• Translingual: Delphinus; Delphinium
• Venetan: dolfin, delfin
• → Albanian: delfin

References

• “delphinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “delphinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• delphinus 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)
• delphinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.