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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /siˈmius/
- Rhymes: -ius
- Hyphenation: si‧mi‧us
Verb
simius
- conditional of simii
Latin
Etymology
See sīmia (“ape, monkey”)
Pronunciation
Noun
sīmius m (genitive sīmiī or sīmī); second declension
- ape, monkey
Declension
Second-declension noun.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
See also sīmia.
References
- “simius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “simius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- simius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.