physeter

See also: Physeter

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Etymology

From Latin [Term?].

Noun

physeter (plural physeters)

1. (obsolete, zoology) A member of the genus Physeter; a sperm whale.
2. A filtering machine operated by air pressure.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “physeter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• hypester

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φυσητήρ (phusētḗr).

Noun

phȳsēter m (genitive phȳsēteris); third declension

1. blowpipe
2. sperm whale

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	phȳsēter	phȳsēterēs
genitive	phȳsēteris	phȳsēterum
dative	phȳsēterī	phȳsēteribus
accusative	phȳsēterem	phȳsēterēs
ablative	phȳsētere	phȳsēteribus
vocative	phȳsēter	phȳsēterēs

Descendants

• → Italian: fisetere m
• → Translingual: Physeter m

References

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