Translingual

Rattus rattus

Wikispecies

Proper noun

Rattus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Muridae – the rats, including about 50 species.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Mammalia - class; Theria - subclass; Placentalia - infraclass; Rodentia - order; Myomorpha - suborder; Muroidea - superfamily; Muridae - family; Murinae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Rattus norvegicus (brown rat, Norway rat) - type species; Rattus adustus, Rattus andamanensis, Rattus annandalei, Rattus arfakiensis, Rattus argentiventer, Rattus arrogans, Rattus baluensis, Rattus blangorum, Rattus bontanus, Rattus burrus, Rattus colletti, Rattus elaphinus, Rattus enganus, Rattus everetti, Rattus exulans (Polynesian rat), Rattus feliceus, Rattus foersteri, Rattus fuscipes, Rattus giluwensis, Rattus hainaldi, Rattus hoffmanni, Rattus hoogerwerfi, Rattus jobiensis, Rattus koopmani, Rattus korinchi, Rattus leucopus, Rattus losea, Rattus lugens, Rattus lutreolus, †Rattus macleari, Rattus marmosurus, Rattus mindorensis, Rattus mollicomulus, Rattus montanus, Rattus mordax, Rattus morotaiensis, †Rattus nativitatis, Rattus nikenii, Rattus niobe, Rattus nitidus, Rattus novaeguineae, Rattus omichlodes, Rattus osgoodi, Rattus palmarum, Rattus pelurus, Rattus pococki, Rattus praetor, Rattus pyctoris, Rattus ranjiniae, Rattus rattus (black rat), Rattus richardsoni, Rattus salocco, Rattus sanila, Rattus satarae, Rattus simalurensis, Rattus sordidus, Rattus steini, Rattus stoicus, Rattus tanezumi, Rattus tawitawiensis, Rattus timorensis, Rattus tiomanicus, Rattus tunneyi, Rattus unicolor, Rattus vandeuseni, Rattus verecundus, Rattus villosissimus, Rattus xanthurus - species

Latin

Noun

rattus m ‎(variously declined, genitive rattī or rattūs); second declension, fourth declension

1. (New Latin) rat

Usage notes

In Classical Latin, the word mūs was applied to both mice and rats without distinction.

Inflection

Declined as either a second or fourth declension noun.

Descendants

• Translingual: Rattus, Rattus rattus

References

• RATTUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)