addax
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The Addax.
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English
Etymology
From Latin addax, apparently from an African language.
Pronunciation
Noun
addax (plural addaxes or addax)
- A large African antelope (Addax nasomaculatus) with long, corkscrewing horns which lives in the desert.
- Synonyms: screwhorn antelope, white antelope
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, page 53:
- In her hand, the haunch of an addax, still hissing from the spit.
Translations
Addax nasomaculatus
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Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin addax, apparently from an African language.
Noun
addax m (invariable)
Related terms
Latin
Etymology
From an African source.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈad.daks/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈad.daks/,
Noun
addax m (genitive addacis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | addax | addacēs |
| genitive | addacis | addacum |
| dative | addacī | addacibus |
| accusative | addacem | addacēs |
| ablative | addace | addacibus |
| vocative | addax | addacēs |
Synonyms
References
- “addax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- addax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.