Translingual

Wikispecies

Proper noun

Clupea f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Clupeidae – the herring, plankton-eating forage fish that are an important food, found in temperate waters.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Vertebrata - subphylum, Gnathostomata- infraphylum, Osteichthyes - superclass, Actinopterygii - class, Neopterygii - subclass, Teleostei - infraclass, Clupeomorpha - superorder, Clupeiformes - order, Clupeidae - family, Clupeinae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Clupea bentincki, Clupea caspiopontica, Clupea harengula, Clupea harengus, Clupea melanostoma, Clupea sprattus - species

Latin

Noun

clupea

1. nominative plural of clupeum
2. accusative plural of clupeum
3. vocative plural of clupeum

References

• clupea in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “clupea”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• clupea in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• clupea in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press