elacaten

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἠλᾰκᾰτήν (ēlakatḗn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eːˈla.ka.teːn/, [eːˈɫ̪äkät̪eːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈla.ka.ten/, [eˈläːkät̪en]

Noun

ēlacatēn m (genitive ēlacatēnos); third declension

1. a large sea fish, a tuna
   • 1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 76, line 15:

     E l a c a t e n a  genus salsamenti, quod appellatur vulgo melandrea.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Pliny the Elder to this entry?)

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ēlacatēn	ēlacatēnes
Genitive	ēlacatēnos	ēlacatēnum
Dative	ēlacatēnī	ēlacatēnibus
Accusative	ēlacatēna	ēlacatēnas
Ablative	ēlacatēne	ēlacatēnibus
Vocative	ēlacatēn	ēlacatēnes

Synonyms

• ēlacatae f pl

References

• “ēlăcătēnes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ēlăcătēna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “579/1”
• “ēlacatēna” on page 597/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)