Palinurus

Translingual

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek παλίν (palín, “back, backwards”) + οὐρά (ourá), οὐρή (ourḗ, “tail”).

Proper noun

Palinurus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Palinuridae – spiny lobsters.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Crustacea – subphylum; Malacostraca – class; Eumalacostraca – subclass; Eucarida – superorder; Decapoda – order; Pleocyemata – suborder; Achelata – infraorder; Palinuridae – family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Palinurus elephas – type species

Derived terms

• Linuparus
• Nupalirus
• Palinura
• Palinuroidea
• Panulirus
• †Archaeopalinurus Pinna, 1974
• †Palaeopalinurus
• †Palinurina

References

• Palinurus (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Palinurus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Palinurus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Παλίνουρος (Palínouros).

Proper noun

Palinūrus m sg (genitive Palinūrī); second declension

1. a male given name, character in the play Curculio of Plautus

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Palinūrus
genitive	Palinūrī
dative	Palinūrō
accusative	Palinūrum
ablative	Palinūrō
vocative	Palinūre

References

• “Palinurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Palinurus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.