cephenes

== Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek κηφῆνες (kēphênes). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [keːˈpʰeː.nɛs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t͡ʃeˈfɛː.nes] === Noun === cēphēnes m pl (genitive cēphēnum); third declension the drones in a swarm of bees ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun, plural only. ==== Synonyms ==== fūcī (pure Latin) ==== Descendants ==== ⇒ Translingual: Cephenemyia === References === “cēphēnes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press