addax

See also: Addax

English

Etymology

From Latin addax, apparently from an African language.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈa.daks/

Noun

addax (plural addaxes or addax)

  1. A large African antelope (Addax nasomaculatus), with long horns, that lives in the desert. [from 17th c.]
    • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 53:
      In her hand, the haunch of an addax, still hissing from the spit.

Translations

Italian

Etymology

From Latin addax, apparently from an African language.

Noun

addax m (invariable)

  1. addax

Latin

Etymology

From an African source.

Pronunciation

Noun

addax m (genitive addacis); third declension

  1. addax

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative addax addacēs
genitive addacis addacum
dative addacī addacibus
accusative addacem addacēs
ablative addace addacibus
vocative addax addacēs

Synonyms

References

  • addax in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • addax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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