seepia
Finnish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editseepia
- cuttlefish, inkfish (marine mollusk of the order Sepiida)
- sepia (slightly reddish, dark brown pigment made from the secretions, the "ink", of the cuttlefish or a synthetic pigment of the same colour)
- sepia (colour of that pigment)
Usage notes
edit"Inkfish" usually denotes "cuttlefish" in English, whereas its Finnish calque mustekala refers to any animal in the subclass Coleoidea, within which the Sepiida are an order. These terms are thus false friends.
Declension
editInflection of seepia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | seepia | seepiat | |
genitive | seepian | seepioiden seepioitten | |
partitive | seepiaa | seepioita | |
illative | seepiaan | seepioihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | seepia | seepiat | |
accusative | nom. | seepia | seepiat |
gen. | seepian | ||
genitive | seepian | seepioiden seepioitten seepiain rare | |
partitive | seepiaa | seepioita | |
inessive | seepiassa | seepioissa | |
elative | seepiasta | seepioista | |
illative | seepiaan | seepioihin | |
adessive | seepialla | seepioilla | |
ablative | seepialta | seepioilta | |
allative | seepialle | seepioille | |
essive | seepiana | seepioina | |
translative | seepiaksi | seepioiksi | |
abessive | seepiatta | seepioitta | |
instructive | — | seepioin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Hypernyms
editFurther reading
edit- “seepia”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03