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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀστακός (astakós, “smooth lobster”).
Pronunciation
Noun
astacus m (genitive astacī); second declension
- A kind of crab
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “astacus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- astacus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “astacus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
- “astacus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “astacus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “astacus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly