Translingual

Barbus plebejus

Proper noun

Barbus m

1. (formerly) A taxonomic genus within the family Barbidae – many fish resembling barbs and barbels, now being assigned to genera, mostly in Barbinae, especially Puntius.
2. A taxonomic genus within the family Cyprinidae – typical barbs and barbels.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Osteichthyes - superclass; Actinopterygii - class; Neopterygii - subclass; Teleostei - infraclass; Ostariophysi - superorder; Cypriniformes - order; Cyprinoidea - superfamily; Cyprinidae - family; Barbinae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (former genus in Barbidae): Search World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) for "Barbus"
• (genus in Cyprinidae): See Barbus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies or Barbus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Coordinate terms

• (genus in Barbinae): Acrossocheilus*, Barbodes, Caecobarbus, Capoeta, Carasobarbus, Catla, Catlocarpio, Dawkinsia, Haludaria, Iranocypris, Labeobarbus, Luciobarbus, Pethia, Phreatichthys, Pseudobarbus, Puntius*, Rohtee, Schizopyge, Sinocyclocheilus*, Systomus, Tor, Typhlogarra, Varicorhinus - genera (genera marked with * included species formerly in Barbus)

French

Adjective

barbus

1. masculine plural of barbu

Latin

Etymology

From barba ‎(“beard”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbar.bus/, [ˈbar.bʊs]

Noun

barbus m ‎(genitive barbī); second declension

1. barbel

Inflection

Second declension.

References

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