cetus
Latin
noun
Definitions
- Any large sea-animal, such as a whale, shark, seal, dog-fish, dolphin, or tuna, or a sea monster.
- The constellation Cetus, the Whale.
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῆτος (whale, sea monster, any sea-monster huge fish).
Origin
Ancient Greek
κῆτος
Gloss
whale, sea monster, any sea-monster huge fish
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
鯨
Emoji
🐋 🐳
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cetoleic English
- cetyl English
- cetylic English
- cetylstearyl English
- cetyltrimethylammonium English
- cetos Latin
- кит Russian
- κῆτος Ancient Greek
- kit Serbo-Croatian
- кит Serbo-Croatian
- κήτος Greek (modern)
- кит Macedonian
- кит Ukrainian
- кіт Belarusian
- kit Slovene
- китъ Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- ⲕⲏⲧⲟⲥ Coptic
- ⲕⲩⲧⲟⲥ Coptic