antlia

See also: Antlia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin antlia (“pump”), from Ancient Greek ἀντλία (antlía).

Noun

antlia (plural antliae)

(zoology) The spiral tubular proboscis of lepidopterous insects.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “antlia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Latian, Latina, Natali, Talian, latina, talian

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀντλία (antlía, “bilge-water, filth”), from ἀντλέω (antléō, “to bale out bilge-water, to bale the ship, to draw water”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈant.li.a/, [ˈän̪t̪lʲiä]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈant.li.a/, [ˈän̪t̪liä]

Noun

antlia f (genitive antliae); first declension

a foot-operated pump for drawing water
(zoology) the body part of an insect used to suck up plant juices

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	antlia	antliae
Genitive	antliae	antliārum
Dative	antliae	antliīs
Accusative	antliam	antliās
Ablative	antliā	antliīs
Vocative	antlia	antliae

References

“antlia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
antlia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“antlia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“antlia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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