nautilus

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Nautilus

Etymology

From Latin nautilus, from Ancient Greek ναυτίλος (nautílos, “paper nautilus, sailor”).

Pronunciation

Noun

nautilus (plural nautiluses or nautili)

  1. A marine mollusc, of the family Nautilidae native to the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean, which has tentacles and a spiral shell with a series of air-filled chambers, of which Nautilus is the type genus.
    • 1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 44:
      He was still prepared to go on collecting all that life could offer, like a chambered nautilus patiently adding new cells to its slowly expanding spiral.
  2. A kind of diving bell that sinks or rises by means of compressed air.

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Latin

nautilus (paper nautilus)

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ναυτίλος (nautílos, “nautilus, sailor”); see naval.

Pronunciation

Noun

nautilus m (genitive nautilī); second declension

  1. paper nautilus, argonaut (genus Argonauta)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative nautilus nautilī
genitive nautilī nautilōrum
dative nautilō nautilīs
accusative nautilum nautilōs
ablative nautilō nautilīs
vocative nautile nautilī

Descendants

References

  • “nautilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • nautilus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Noun

nautilus m (plural nautiluși)

  1. Alternative form of nautil

Declension

singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative nautilus nautilusul nautiluși nautilușii
genitive-dative nautilus nautilusului nautiluși nautilușilor
vocative nautilusule nautilușilor
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