addax

== English == === Etymology === From French addax, from Arabic أبو عدس (ʔabū ʕadas, literally “father of the lentil”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈa.daks/ === Noun === addax (plural addaxes or addax) A large African antelope (Addax nasomaculatus) with long, corkscrewing horns which lives in the desert. [from 17th c.] Synonyms: screwhorn antelope, white antelope ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== pygarg == Italian == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from Latin addax, apparently from an African language. === Noun === addax m (invariable) addax ==== Related terms ==== antilope dalle corna a vite == Latin == === Etymology === From an African source. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈad.daks] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈad.daks] === Noun === addax m (genitive addacis); third declension addax ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Synonyms ==== pȳgargus === References === “addax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “addax”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.