antiae

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin antiae (“forelock”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈænti.aɪ/, /ˈænti.i/

Noun

antiae pl (normally plural, singular antia)

  1. (zoology) The two projecting feathered angles of the forehead of some birds; the frontal points.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “antiae”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos.

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Noun

antiae f pl (genitive antiārum); first declension (plural only)

  1. forelock

Declension

First-declension noun, plural only.

Case Plural
Nominative antiae
Genitive antiārum
Dative antiīs
Accusative antiās
Ablative antiīs
Vocative antiae

Descendants

  • → English: antiae (learned)

References

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