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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos, “any sea-monster or huge fish”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cētus m (genitive cētī); second declension
- Any large sea-animal, such as a whale, shark, seal, dogfish, dolphin, or tuna, or a sea monster.
- The constellation Cetus, the Whale
Declension
Second-declension noun.
References
- “cetus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cetus 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)
- cetus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “cetus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers