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Latin
Proper noun
Ursa minor f sg (genitive Ursae minōris); first declension
- (astronomy) Ursa Minor, Little Bear
1768, Gasparus Sagner, Institutiones Philosophicae In usum Scholarum Ex probatis Veterum, Recentiorumque sententiis adornatae. Tomus IV., Placentiae, page 79:In haemispherio Septemtrionali.
Adromeda [i.e. Andromeda], Antinous, Aquila, Auriga, Bootes cum monte Maenalo, Canes venatici, Camelopardalis, Cassiopaea, Cephus, Cerberus, Coma Berenices, Corona Borealis, Cignus, Delphinus, Draco, Equuleus, Hercules, Lacerta, Leo minor, Lynx, Lyra, Musca, Pegasus, Perseus, Sagitta, Serpens, Serpentarius, Scutum, Sobiescianum, Triangulum majus, Triangulum minus, Ursa major, Ursa minor, Vulpecula cum ansere.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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First-declension noun with a third-declension comparative adjective, singular only.
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