vitulus marinus
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Latin
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]From vitulus + marīnus . Compare English sea calf and the use of other terrestrial animals' names to create ones of aquatic and semiaquatic animals in compounds with the adjective marīnus : porcus marīnus ("porpoise", literally "sea pork"), rāna marīna ("anglerfish", literally "sea frog").
Pronunciation
[edit ]- (Classical Latin ) IPA (key): [ˈwɪ.tʊ.ɫʊs maˈriː.nʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical ) IPA (key): [ˈviː.tu.lus maˈriː.nus]
Noun
[edit ]vitulus marīnus m (genitive vitulī marīnī ); second declension
- seal, sea calf
- Synonyms: vitulus , phōca , (Medieval Latin) canis marīnus
- 121 CE , Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum , volume Aug.90:
- Tonitrua et fulgura paulo infirmius expavescebat, ut semper et ubique pellem vituli marini circumferret pro remedio, [...]
- He had so great a fear of thunder and lightnings that, wherever he be, he always packed the hide of a seal to cover himself with as relief, [...]
Declension
[edit ]Second-declension noun with a second-declension adjective.
Further reading
[edit ]- "vitulus marinus", in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.