Atrax

== Translingual == === Etymology === Coined by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge and published in 1877 Possibly from Latin ātra (feminine nominative) meaning dull black, dark., but more likely from Latin Atrax- although there is no obvious connection between Australian spiders and ancient Greece. A third possibility could involve a misspelling of Latin atrox, having the meaning ‘terrible, frightening, dreadful’ (more appropriate in the light of the potency of the venom). === Proper noun === Atrax m A taxonomic species within the family Hexathelidae – certain of the funnel-web tarantulas. ==== Hypernyms ==== (genus): Araneae - order; Opisthothelae - suborder; Mygalomorphae - infraorder; Hexatheloidea - superfamily; Hexathelidae - family; Atracinae - subfamily; Atrax - genus ==== Hyponyms ==== (genus): Atrax robustus, Atrax sutherlandi, Atrax yorkmainorum - species === Further reading === Atrax on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Atrax on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Atrax on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons Atrax at National Center for Biotechnology Information == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἄτραξ (Átrax). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈa.traks], [ˈat.raks] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈaː.traks], [ˈat.raks] === Proper noun === Atrax m sg (genitive Atracis); third declension A town of Thessaly, situated above the river Peneus a river in Aetolia, mentioned by Pliny ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun, with locative, singular only. ==== Related terms ==== Atraces Atracis Atracius === References === “Atrax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Atrax”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “Atrax”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly