Palaemon

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Translingual

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Etymology

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Proper noun

Palaemon m

A taxonomic genus within the family Palaemonidae – certain shrimps, some called grass shrimp.

Hypernyms

(genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Crustacea – subphylum; Malacostraca – class; Eumalacostraca – subclass; Eucarida – superorder; Decapoda – order; Pleocyemata – suborder; Caridea – infraorder; Palaemonoidea – superfamily; Palaemonidae – family; Palaemoninae – subfamily

Hyponyms

(genus): Palaemon adspersus - type species; Palaemon pugio (daggerblade grass shrimp), Palaemon serratus (common prawn), Palaemon varians - selected other species

References

Palaemon (crustacean) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Palaemon on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Palaemonetes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Παλαίμων (Palaímōn).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /paˈlae̯.moːn/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paˈle.mon/,
(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /paˈlae̯.mon/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paˈle.mon/,

Proper noun

Palaemō̆n m sg (genitive Palaemō̆nis or Palaemō̆nos); third declension

Palaemon, a sea god who was the son of Athamus and Ino

Declension

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

	singular
nominative	Palaemō̆n
genitive	Palaemō̆nis Palaemō̆nos
dative	Palaemō̆nī
accusative	Palaemō̆na
ablative	Palaemō̆ne
vocative	Palaemō̆n

References

“Palaemon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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