physeter

== English == === Etymology === From Latin [Term?]. === Noun === physeter (plural physeters) (obsolete, zoology) A member of the genus Physeter; a sperm whale. A filtering machine operated by air pressure. === Anagrams === hypester == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek φυσητήρ (phusētḗr). === Noun === phȳsēter m (genitive phȳsēteris); third declension blowpipe sperm whale ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== → Italian: fisetere m → Translingual: Physeter m === References === “physeter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “physeter”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.