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
Liber VI
Aulus Gellius
"...Apionos, eruditi viri, ex Aegyptiacorum libro quinto, quibus delphini amantis et pueri non abhorrentis consuetudines, lusus, gestationes, aurigationes..."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..."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..."
