Latin

Noun

basiliscus m ‎(genitive basiliscī); second declension

1. a basilisk or cockatrice

Inflection

Second declension.

References

• basiliscus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• BASILISCUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “basiliscus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• basiliscus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• basiliscus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray