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Latin
Etymology 1
Unknown. Not related to clupeus (“shield”).
Noun
clupea f (genitive clupeae); first declension
- allis shad
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
Etymology 2
Noun
clupea
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of clupeum
References
- “clupea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- clupea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “clupea”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “clupea”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press