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Translingual
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἄρκτος (árktos, “bear”).
Noun
arctos
- A species name descriptor.
- A descriptor related to bears, for bears and bear-like species
- Ellipsis of Ursus arctos. (brown bear)
- A descriptor for species related to the northern polar region, from association with Ursa Major, Ursa Minor and its Polaris (the North Star).
- Ellipsis of Canis lupus arctos. (Arctic wolf)
See also
- arcticus (a Latin word for the arctic, also derived from the Bear constellations)
- ἀρκτικός (arktikós) (a Greek word for the northern polar lands, derived from the Bear constellations)
Latin
Adjective
arctōs
- accusative masculine plural of arctus
References
- “arctos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- arctos in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- arctos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “arctos”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers