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physeter

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin.

Noun

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physeter (plural physeters)

  1. (zoology) A member of the genus Physeter; a sperm whale.
  2. A filtering machine operated by air pressure.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for physeter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek φυσητήρ (phusētḗr).

Noun

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phȳsēter m (genitive phȳsēteris); third declension

  1. blowpipe
  2. sperm whale

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative phȳsēter phȳsēterēs
genitive phȳsēteris phȳsēterum
dative phȳsēterī phȳsēteribus
accusative phȳsēterem phȳsēterēs
ablative phȳsētere phȳsēteribus
vocative phȳsēter phȳsēterēs

Descendants

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  • Italian: fisetere m
  • Translingual: Physeter m

References

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  • 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.