lamantin
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
lamantin (plural lamantins)
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From lamenti, an alteration of Spanish manatí, a Cariban word, by association with lamenter (“lament, bewail”), because of the animal's cry.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
lamantin m (plural lamantins)
- manatee
- Synonym: vache de mer
Descendants[edit]
- → Armenian: լամանտին (lamantin)
- → Corsican: lamantinu
- → Dutch: lamantijn
- → English: lamantin
- → Italian: lamantino
- → Romanian: lamantin
- → Russian: ламанти́н (lamantín)
Further reading[edit]
- “lamantin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams[edit]
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French lamantin, an alteration of Spanish manatí.
Noun[edit]
lamantin m (plural lamantini)
- manatee (any of several plant-eating marine mammals, of family Trichechidae)
Declension[edit]
Declension of lamantin
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) lamantin | lamantinul | (niște) lamantini | lamantinii |
| genitive/dative | (unui) lamantin | lamantinului | (unor) lamantini | lamantinilor |
| vocative | lamantinule | lamantinilor | ||
Categories:
- English terms derived from French
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with archaic senses
- en:Dugongs and manatees
- French terms derived from Spanish
- French terms derived from Cariban languages
- French 3-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- fr:Dugongs and manatees
- Romanian terms borrowed from French
- Romanian terms derived from French
- Romanian terms derived from Spanish
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian countable nouns
- Romanian masculine nouns
- ro:Mammals