pelecanus

See also: Pelecanus

Latin

pelecānī (pelicans)

Alternative forms

• pelicānus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πελεκάν (pelekán), πελεκάνος (pelekános).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pe.leˈkaː.nus/, [pɛɫ̪ɛˈkäːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pe.leˈka.nus/, [peleˈkäːnus]

Noun

pelecānus m (genitive pelecānī); second declension

1. pelican

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pelecānus	pelecānī
Genitive	pelecānī	pelecānōrum
Dative	pelecānō	pelecānīs
Accusative	pelecānum	pelecānōs
Ablative	pelecānō	pelecānīs
Vocative	pelecāne	pelecānī

Descendants

• → Basque: pelikano
• → Breton: pilikant
• → Bulgarian: пеликан (pelikan)
• Catalan: pelicà
• → Chechen: пеликан (pelikan)
• → Czech: pelikán
• → Danish: pelikan
• → Dutch: pelikaan
• → English: pelican
• → Esperanto: pelikano
• → Estonian: pelikan
• → Finnish: pelikaani
• French: pélican
  • → Romanian: pelican
• Friulian: pilekaan
• Galician: pelícano
• → German: Pelikan
• → Hungarian: pelikán
• → Icelandic: pelíkani
• → Ido: pelikano
• → Indonesian: pelikan
• → Interlingua: pelicano
• → Irish: peileacán
• Italian: pellicano
• → Japanese: ペリカン (perikan)
• → Korean: 펠리컨 (pellikeon)
• → Lithuanian: pelikanas
• → Macedonian: пеликан (pelikan)
• Norman: pélican
• → Northern Kurdish: pelîkan
• → Norwegian: pelikan
• Occitan: pelican
• → Papiamentu: pelikan
• Picard: pélincan
• → Polish: pelikan
• Portuguese: pelicano
• Romansch: pelican
• → Russian: пеликан (pelikan)
• → Scottish Gaelic: pelican
• → Serbo-Croatian: пеликан
• → Slovak: pelikán
• → Slovene: pelikan
• Spanish: pelícano
• → Swedish: pelikan
• → Translingual: Pelecanus
• → Turkish: pelikan
• → Ukrainian: пелікан (pelikan)
• → West Frisian: pilekaan

References

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