clupea

== Latin == === Etymology 1 === Unknown. Found in Ancient Greek as κλουπαi͂α (kloupaîa), κλουπĺας (kloupĺas). According to Etimo, of Celtic, specifically Gaulish origin, but it doesn't list any Celtic cognates. This would tentatively be from a Proto-Celtic *kluppā (“small fish”) (feminine noun), of obscure ultimate origin. Not related to clupeus (“shield”), but perhaps influenced by it. ==== Noun ==== clupea f (genitive clupeae); first declension allis shad ===== Declension ===== First-declension noun. ===== Descendants ===== === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== clupea nominative/accusative/vocative plural of clupeum === References === “clupea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “clupea”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “clupea”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “clupea”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press