tragelaphus
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin tragelaphus.
Noun[edit]
tragelaphus (plural tragelaphi)
- A fictional animal, half goat, half stag, used by the philosopher Aristotle as an example of something that is knowable even though it does not exist.
- 1861, Plutarch, Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's, page 23:
- The canathrum, as they call it, is a chair or chariot made of wood, in the shape of a griffin, or tragelaphus, on which the children and young virgins are carried in processions.
Derived terms[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek τραγέλαφος (tragélaphos, “mythical goat-stag”, from τράγος (trágos, “billy goat”) + ἔλαφος (élaphos, “deer”)).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /traˈɡe.la.pʰus/, [t̪räˈɡɛɫ̪äpʰʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /traˈd͡ʒe.la.fus/, [t̪räˈd͡ʒɛːläfus]
Noun[edit]
tragelaphus m (genitive tragelaphī); second declension
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | tragelaphus | tragelaphī |
Genitive | tragelaphī | tragelaphōrum |
Dative | tragelaphō | tragelaphīs |
Accusative | tragelaphum | tragelaphōs |
Ablative | tragelaphō | tragelaphīs |
Vocative | tragelaphe | tragelaphī |
Descendants[edit]
- Translingual: Tragelaphus
References[edit]
- “tragelaphus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tragelaphus 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)
- tragelaphus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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