cetos

== Latin == === Pronunciation === cētos: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkeː.tɔs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛː.tos] cētōs: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkeː.toːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛː.tos] === Etymology 1 === From Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos, “any sea-monster or huge fish”). Plural κήτη (kḗtē). ==== Noun ==== cētos n (genitive cētī); second declension alternative form of cētus ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type, nominative/accusative/vocative in -os). === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== cētōs accusative plural of cētus === References === “cetos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “cetos”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “cetos”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.