cetus

== Latin == === Alternative forms === cētos n === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos, “any sea-monster or huge fish”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkeː.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛː.tus] === Noun === cētus m (genitive cētī); second declension Any large sea-animal, such as a whale, shark, seal, dogfish, dolphin, or tuna, or a sea monster. The constellation Cetus, the Whale ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== Cētō === References === “cetus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "cetus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “cetus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “cetus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers