clupea

See also: Clupea

Latin

Etymology 1

Unknown[1]. Not related to clupeus (“shield”).

Noun

clupea f (genitive clupeae); first declension

  1. allis shad
Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative clupea clupeae
Genitive clupeae clupeārum
Dative clupeae clupeīs
Accusative clupeam clupeās
Ablative clupeā clupeīs
Vocative clupea clupeae
Descendants

Noun

clupea

  1. nominative plural of clupeum
  2. accusative plural of clupeum
  3. vocative plural of clupeum

References
  • clupea in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • clupea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • clupea in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • clupea in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
  1. Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938), “clupea”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 1, 3rd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 240
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