delphini
Dictionary entries
- Entry →delphinus, delphini:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
dolphin; ornament shaped like a dolphin; (part of water organ); constellation;
gen. sg.loc. sg.nom. pl.voc. pl. - Entry →delphin, delphinis:
Masculine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
dolphin; ornament shaped like a dolphin; (part of water organ); constellation;
dat. sg.loc. sg. - Entry →delphis, delphinis:
Masculine · Noun
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Field:
- Agriculture
dolphin; ornament shaped like a dolphin; (part of water organ); constellation;
dat. sg.loc. sg.
Examples
- A
Liber VI
Aulus Gellius
"...Apionos, eruditi viri, ex Aegyptiacorum libro quinto, quibus delphini amantis et pueri non abhorrentis consuetudines, lusus, gestationes, aurigationes..." - D
Satura X
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...cura strangulat et cuncta exuperans patrimonia census quanto delphinis ballaena Britannica maior. temporibus diris igitur iussuque Neronis Longinum..." - L
Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...animalium dentibus, at inferior mollis ac tenera. Hanc delphini spinis, quas dorso eminentes gerunt, submersi uulnerabant..."
