cervicornis

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Translingual

Adjective

cervicornis

(taxonomy) having a horn like a stag, stag-horned
- 1778, Johann Samuel Schröter, Vollständige Einleitung in die Kenntniß und Geschichte der Steine und Versteinerungen. Dritter Theil von den Versteinerungen (in German), page 463:
  Noch konnten, nach diesem Begriff, einige Eschariten unter den Milleporiten stehen, wie ich denn in der Folge, die Milleporam reteporam, und cervicornem, dorthin rechnen werde.
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- 1741, Nova acta physico-medica academiae caesareae leopoldino-carolinae naturae curiosorum exhibentia ephemerides sive observationes historias et experimenta. Tomus octavus, page 292:
  Elegantem hanc Asteriadem copiosissime inveni supra Milleporam cervicornem Pallasii, seu supra Porum Imperati cervinum, quem ad Flustram suam Linnaeus foliaceam minus recte citaverat.
- 1876, Jacobus Georgius Agardh, Species genera et ordines algarum, seu descriptiones succinctae specierum, generum et ordinum, quibus algarum regnum constituitur. Volumen tertium: De florides curae posteriores (in Latin), page 414:
  Sub nomine Rhod. cervicornis Montagne Gr. cervicornem veram in Voy. Bonit. p. 108. descripsisse videtur, comparatis characteribus datis.
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Latin

Etymology

From cervus (“stag”) +‎ cornū (“horn”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ker.u̯iˈkor.nis/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃer.viˈkor.nis/,

Adjective

cervicornis (neuter cervicorne); third-declension two-termination adjective

(New Latin) having a horn like a stag, stag-horned

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	cervicornis	cervicorne		cervicornēs	cervicornia
genitive	cervicornis			cervicornium
dative	cervicornī			cervicornibus
accusative	cervicornem	cervicorne		cervicornēs cervicornīs	cervicornia
ablative	cervicornī			cervicornibus
vocative	cervicornis	cervicorne		cervicornēs	cervicornia

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