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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin antlia (“pump”), from Ancient Greek ἀντλία (antlía).
Noun
antlia (plural antliae)
- (archaic, zoology) The spiral tubular proboscis of butterflies.
References
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀντλία (antlía, “bilge-water, filth”), from ἀντλέω (antléō, “to bale out bilge-water, to bale the ship, to draw water”).
Pronunciation
Noun
antlia f (genitive antliae); first declension
- a foot-operated pump for drawing water
- (zoology) the body part of an insect used to suck up plant juices
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “antlia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- antlia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “antlia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “antlia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin