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Etymology
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Proper noun
Dolabella f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Aplysiidae – sea hares.
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Latin
Etymology
From dolābella (“small hatchet”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Dolābella m sg (genitive Dolābellae); first declension
- A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
- Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella, a Roman consul
Declension
First-declension noun, singular only.
Further reading
- “Dolabella2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Dolabella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.