Lucanus

== Translingual == === Etymology === Coined by Tyrolean physician and naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1763. Borrowed from Latin lucanus (“stag beetle”). === Proper noun === Lucanus m A taxonomic genus within the family Lucanidae – stag beetles. ==== Hypernyms ==== (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Holometabola – superorder; Coleoptera – order; Polyphaga – suborder; Scarabaeiformia – infraorder; Scarabaeoidea – superfamily; Lucanidae – family; Lucaninae - subfamily; Lucanini - tribe ==== Hyponyms ==== (genus): Lucanus cervus - type species === References === Lucanus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Lucanus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Lucanus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons == Latin == === Etymology === From Lūca (“a city in Etruria”) + -ānus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɫuːˈkaː.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [luˈkaː.nus] === Proper noun === Lūcānus m (genitive Lūcānī); second declension A resident of Lucania The name of a Roman gēns. The Roman poet Lucan. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== Ancient Greek: Λουκανός (Loukanós) English: Lucan Italian: Lucano Middle French: LucainFrench: Lucain Translingual: Lucanus === References === “Lucanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers