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English
Noun
stellio
- (zoology, obsolete) The agamid lizard Laudakia stellio.
Latin
Etymology
From stēlla (“star”) + -iō, perhaps originally for the star lizard, so named because of the starlike spots on its back.
Noun
stēlliō m (genitive stēlliōnis); third declension
- stellion or other kind of small lizard, newt
- crafty person, scoundrel
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “stellio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “stellio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- stellio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- stellio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.