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Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
luscinius m (genitive lusciniī or luscinī); second declension
- Alternative form of luscinia (“nightingale”)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “luscinius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “luscinius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- luscinius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.