elacaten

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἠλᾰκᾰτήν (ēlakatḗn).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eːˈla.ka.teːn/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈla.ka.ten/,

Noun

ēlacatēn m (genitive ēlacatēnos); third declension

a large sea fish, a tuna
- 1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 76, line 15:
  E l a c a t e n a genus salsamenti, quod appellatur vulgo melandrea.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
(Can we find and add a quotation of Pliny the Elder to this entry?)

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant).

	singular	plural
nominative	ēlacatēn	ēlacatēnes
genitive	ēlacatēnos	ēlacatēnum
dative	ēlacatēnī	ēlacatēnibus
accusative	ēlacatēna	ēlacatēnas
ablative	ēlacatēne	ēlacatēnibus
vocative	ēlacatēn	ēlacatēnes

Synonyms

ēlacatae f pl

References

“ēlăcătēnes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ēlăcătēna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “579/1”
“ēlacatēna” on page 597/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

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