Translingual

Proper noun

Ursus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Ursidae – the American black bear, the polar bear and the grizzly (or brown bear) are all species of the genus Ursus..

Hypernyms

• (species): Mammalia - class; Trechnotheria - subclass; Zatheria - infraclass; Theria - supercohort; Eutheria - cohort; Epitheria - magnorder; Laurasiatheria - superorder; Carnivora - order; Caniformia - suborder; Ursidae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Ursus americanus, Ursus arctos, Ursus maritimus, Ursus thibetanus - species

See also

• Ursus (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ursus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Latin

ursus (a bear)

Noun

ursus m ‎(genitive ursī); second declension

1. a bear

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• ursa
• ursīna
• ursīnus

Descendants

References

• ursus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ursus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “ursus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• ursus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ursus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray