clupea

See also: Clupea

Latin

Etymology 1

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

Noun

clupea f (genitive clupeae); first declension

  1. allis shad
Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative clupea clupeae
Genitive clupeae clupeārum
Dative clupeae clupeīs
Accusative clupeam clupeās
Ablative clupeā clupeīs
Vocative clupea clupeae
Descendants
  • Galician: xouba
  • Italian: cheppia
  • Translingual: Clupea

Noun

clupea

  1. nominative/accusative/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), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 240
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