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Latin
Etymology
Renaissance Latin, from Ancient Greek φοξῖνος (phoxînos).
Noun
phoxinus m (genitive phoxinī); second declension
- common minnow
1620, Friedrich Förner, chapter IV, in Beneficia miraculosa tam vetera quam recentia virginis Deiparae Weyerensis, page 9:[…] quam auricolorium Luciorum, Phoxinorum, Gobiorum & Muſtelarum fluuiatilium […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants