arctos

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἄρκτος (árktos, “bear”).

arctos

1. A species name descriptor.
   1. A descriptor related to bears, for bears and bear-like species
      1. Ellipsis of Ursus arctos. (brown bear)
   2. A descriptor for species related to the northern polar region, from association with Ursa Major, Ursa Minor and its Polaris (the North Star).
      1. Ellipsis of Canis lupus arctos. (Arctic wolf)

• arcticus (a Latin word for the arctic, also derived from the Bear constellations)
• ἀρκτικός (arktikós) (a Greek word for the northern polar lands, derived from the Bear constellations)

arctōs

1. accusative masculine plural of arctus

• “arctos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• arctos 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)
• arctos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “arctos”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers