batrachites
التعريفات والمعاني
== English ==
=== Noun ===
batrachites
plural of batrachite
== Latin ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βατραχίτης (batrakhítēs), from βάτραχος (bátrakhos, “frog”) + -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs).
=== Pronunciation ===
(Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ba.traˈkʰiː.teːs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ba.traˈkiː.tes]
=== Noun ===
batrachītēs m (genitive batrachītae); first declension
A kind of frog-colored precious stone
==== Declension ====
First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ēs).
==== Descendants ====
English: batrachite
=== References ===
“batrachites”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“batrachites”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.