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Latin
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek κέφᾰλος (képhalos, “a species of mullet”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cephalus m (genitive cephalī); second declension
- chub, chevin, pollard (European freshwater fish, Squalius cephalus)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- cephalus 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)
- 1 cĕphălus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.: “290/2”
- “cephalus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “cephalus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray