antiae

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin antiae (“forelock”).

Noun

antiae pl (plural only)

  1. (zoology) The two projecting feathered angles of the forehead of some birds; the frontal points.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for antiae in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos.

Noun

antiae f (genitive antiārum); first declension (plural only)

  1. forelock

Inflection

First declension.

Case Plural
Nominative antiae
Genitive antiārum
Dative antiīs
Accusative antiās
Ablative antiīs
Vocative antiae

References
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.