strombus

See also: Strombus

English

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strombus

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Strombus

Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Strombus, from Ancient Greek στρόμβος (strómbos, “shell, conch, snail”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹɑm.bəs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹɑm.bəs/

Noun

strombus (plural strombuses or strombi)

1. (zoology) Any conch of the genus Strombus. Most subspecies are known as forms of fighting conchs.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 229:

     Certain parts of a species of strombus, found in the Black Sea, were used among Somali women as an aphrodisiac, according to Dr. Jacobus X.

References

• “strombus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• substorm

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek στρόμβος (strómbos, “shell, conch, snail”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈstrɔm.bʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈstrɔm.bus]

Noun

strombus m (genitive strombī); second declension

1. A kind of spiral snail

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	strombus	strombī
genitive	strombī	strombōrum
dative	strombō	strombīs
accusative	strombum	strombōs
ablative	strombō	strombīs
vocative	strombe	strombī

References

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