Translingual

Natrix natrix

Proper noun

Natrix f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Colubridae – certain water and grass snakes.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Reptilia - class; Eureptilia, Romeriida - clades; Diapsida - subclass; Lepidosauromorpha - infraclass; Lepidosauria - superorder; Squamata - order; Serpentes - suborder; Caenophidia - infraorder; Colubroidea - superfamily; Colubridae - family; Natricinae - subfamily; Thamnophiini - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Natrix natrix - grass snake, Natrix megalocephala, Natrix maura - viperine water snake, Natrix tessellata - dice snake

Latin

Noun

nātrīx f ‎(genitive nātrīcis); third declension

1. water-snake

Declension

Third declension.

Descendants

• Translingual: Natrix (taxonomic genus)
• Italian: natrice
• Spanish: natriz

References

• natrix in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• natrix in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• NATRIX in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “natrix”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.