Hamadryas

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Translingual

Hamadryas magellanica
Hamadryas amphinome (red cracker)

Etymology

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Proper noun

Hamadryas f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Ranunculaceae – perennial herbs of southern South America.
  2. A taxonomic genus within the family Nymphalidae – cracker butterflies, found from Arizona through much of South America.

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plant
butterfly

Latin

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Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἁμαδρυάς (Hamadruás).

Pronunciation

Noun

Hamādryas f sg (genitive Hamādryadis or Hamādryados); third declension

  1. (Greek mythology) Hamadryad, mother of the hamadryads (woodnymphs)
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Propertius to this entry?)

Declension

Third-declension noun (non-Greek-type or Greek-type, normal variant), singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Hamādryas
Genitive Hamādryadis
Hamādryados
Dative Hamādryadī
Accusative Hamādryadem
Hamādryada
Ablative Hamādryade
Vocative Hamādryas

Descendants

References

  • “Hamadryas”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • “Hămādryas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • AMADRIADES 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)
  • “hamādryas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • hămādry̆ădes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “735/2”
  • “Hamadryas” on page 785 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
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