Translingual

Proper noun

Caprimulgus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Caprimulgidae – the whippoorwills.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Aves - class; Saurornithes - informal group; Ornithothoraces, Ornithurae - clades; Carinatae - subclass; Neornithes - infraclass; Neognathae - parvclass; Caprimulgiformes - order; Caprimulgidae - family; Caprimulginae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Caprimulgus europaeus - type species

References

• Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0691128276

Latin

Noun

caprimulgus m ‎(genitive caprimulgī); second declension

1. a milker of goats.
2. a whippoorwill (from the belief that they sucked the milk from goats)

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• Translingual: Caprimulgus

References

• caprimulgus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• caprimulgus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “caprimulgus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.