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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek λάρος (láros), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂-, itself possibly imitative.
Pronunciation
Noun
larus m (genitive larī); second declension
- a ravenous seabird, perhaps a gull or mew
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “larus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- larus 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)
- larus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN