hystrix

== English == === Noun === hystrix (uncountable) (pathology) ichthyosis hystrix == Latin == === Alternative forms === istrix (Late Latin) === Etymology === From Ancient Greek ὕστριξ (hústrix, “porcupine”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈhys.trɪks] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈis.triks] === Noun === hystrix f (genitive hystricis); third declension porcupine ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. === Adjective === hystrix (genitive hystricis); third-declension one-termination adjective (New Latin) spiny (as a taxonomic epithet) ==== Usage notes ==== Used exclusively as a taxonomic epithet and thus normally in the nominative singular; other inflections may be theoretical or rarely found. ==== Declension ==== Third-declension one-termination adjective. === References === “hystrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “hystrix”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.