Orcinus

== Translingual == === Etymology === From Orca (genus of oceanic animals) +‎ -inus, from orca (“a kind of whale”). === Proper noun === Orcinus m A taxonomic genus within the family Delphinidae – orca, killer whale. ==== Hypernyms ==== (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – subclass; Eutheria/Placentalia – infraclass; Cetacea – order; Neoceti – clade; Odontoceti – suborder; Delphinidae – family ==== Hyponyms ==== (genus): Orcinus orca – sole extant species === References === “Orcinus”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. Orcinus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Orcinus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Orcinus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) (1999). International Code on Zoological Nomenclature (4 ed.). The International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature. →ISBN. Article 30.1.1 == Latin == === Etymology === From Orcus (the underworld) +‎ -īnus (adjective forming suffix). Sense 2 was used satirically to refer to senators placed into power by a decree written by Julius Caesar but only read by Mark Antony after the former's death. The joke referred to the fact that these politicians only rose to power through the will of a dead man, someone who belongs to the underworld. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɔrˈkiː.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [orˈt͡ʃiː.nus] === Adjective === Orcīnus (feminine Orcīna, neuter Orcīnum); first/second-declension adjective (Roman mythology) of or pertaining to the underworld in Roman mythology (politics, historical) Roman senators who had been granted their position of authority by a document, supposedly written by Julius Caesar, that had only been publicized by Mark Antony after the dictator's death (historical) Ancient Roman freedmen who had been set free by the last testament of their masters ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Alternative forms ==== Orcīvus ==== Related terms ==== orcīniānus ==== Descendants ==== → Ancient Greek: Χαρωνῖται (Kharōnîtai) (calque) === References === “Orcinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Orcinus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.