cetos

See also: cețos

Latin

Pronunciation

• cētos:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkeː.tɔs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛː.tos]
• cētōs:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkeː.toːs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛː.tos]

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos, “any sea-monster or huge fish”). Plural κήτη (kḗtē).

Noun

cētos n (genitive cētī); second declension

1. alternative form of cētus

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type, nominative/accusative/vocative in -os).

	singular	plural
nominative	cētos	cētē
genitive	cētī	cētōn
dative	cētō	cētīs
accusative	cētos	cētē
ablative	cētō	cētīs
vocative	cētos	cētē

Etymology 2

Noun

cētōs

1. accusative plural of cētus

References

• “cetos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cetos”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cetos”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.