Translingual

Proper noun

Tragelaphus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Bovidae – antelope-like bovines of Africa, with spiral horns.

Synonyms

• (genus): Strepsiceros

Hypernyms

• (genus): Mammalia - class; Theria - subclass; Eutheria - infraclass; magnorder - magnorder; Laurasiatheria - superorder; Cetartiodactyla - clade; Artiodactyla - order; Bovidae - family; Bovinae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Tragelaphus eurycerus (bongo), Tragelaphus strepsiceros (greater kudu), Tragelaphus sylvaticus (imbabala), Tragelaphus scriptus (kewel), Tragelaphus imberbis (lesser kudu), Tragelaphus buxtoni (mountain nyala), Tragelaphus angasii (nyala), Tragelaphus spekii (sitatunga) - species

See also

• Taurotragus (elands)

Latin

Noun

tragelaphus m ‎(genitive tragelaphī); second declension

1. horse-stag, goat-stag (kind of antelope with a beard like a goat)

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• Translingual: Tragelaphus

References

• tragelaphus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• TRAGELAPHUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tragelaphus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.