Squilla
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== Translingual ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Latin squilla (“kind of shrimp”), from Ancient Greek σκίλλα (skílla). Doublet of Scilla.
=== Proper noun ===
Squilla f
A taxonomic genus within the family Squillidae – certain mantis shrimps.
==== Hypernyms ====
(genus):
==== Hyponyms ====
(genus): Squilla mantis - type species
=== References ===
Squilla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Squilla on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Squilla on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
== Latin ==
=== Etymology ===
From squilla (“little bell; shrimp”).
=== Pronunciation ===
(Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈskʷɪl.la]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈskʷil.la]
=== Proper noun ===
Squilla m sg (genitive Squillae); first declension
A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
Marcus Gavius Squilla Gallicanus, a Roman senator
==== Declension ====
First-declension noun, singular only.
=== References ===
“Squilla Gallicanus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray