different between african vs addax

Friulian

Adjective

african

1. African

Occitan

Pronunciation

Adjective

african m (feminine singular africana, masculine plural africans, feminine plural africanas)

1. African

Related terms

• Africa

Venetian

Adjective

african m (feminine singular africana, masculine plural africani, feminine plural africane)

1. African

Related terms

• Àfrica

English

Etymology

From Latin addax, apparently from an African language.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?a.daks/

Noun

addax (plural addaxes or addax)

1. A large African antelope (Addax nasomaculatus), with long horns, that lives in the desert. [from 17th c.]
   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 53:

     In her hand, the haunch of an addax, still hissing from the spit.

Translations

Italian

Etymology

From Latin addax, apparently from an African language.

Noun

addax m (invariable)

1. addax

Related terms

• antilope dalle corna a vite

Latin

Etymology

From an African source.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ad.daks/, [?äd??äks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ad.daks/, [??d???ks]

Noun

addax m (genitive addacis); third declension

1. addax

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

• p?gargus

References

• addax in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• addax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette