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English
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Pronunciation
Noun
larvae
- plural of larva
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Latin
Noun
lārvae
- inflection of lārva:
- nominative/vocative plural
- genitive/dative singular
References
- larvae 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)
- “larvae”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “larvae”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray