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English
Etymology
From the genus name.
Noun
silurus (plural siluri or siluruses)
- (zoology) Any fish of the genus Silurus; a sheatfish.
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σίλουρος (sílouros).
Noun
silūrus m (genitive silūrī); second declension
- sheatfish
Declension
Second-declension noun.
References
- “silurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “silurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- silurus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.