different between nautilus vs ammonite

English

Etymology

From Latin nautilus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (nautílos, “paper nautilus, sailor”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n??.t?.l?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?.t?.l?s/, /?n?.t?.l?s/

Noun

nautilus (plural nautiluses or nautili)

1. A marine mollusc, of the family Nautilidae native to the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean, which has tentacles and a spiral shell with a series of air-filled chambers, of which Nautilus is the type genus.
   • 1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, p 44

     He was still prepared to go on collecting all that life could offer, like a chambered nautilus patiently adding new cells to its slowly expanding spiral.

2. A kind of diving bell that sinks or rises by means of compressed air.

Synonyms

• chambered nautilus

Derived terms

• paper nautilus

Translations

References

• Nautilidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Latin

Alternative forms

• nautilos

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (nautílos, “nautilus, sailor”); see naval.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?nau?.ti.lus/, [?näu?t?????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?nau?.ti.lus/, [?n??u?t?ilus]

Noun

nautilus m (genitive nautil?); second declension

1. paper nautilus, argonaut (genus Argonauta)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Related terms

• nauticus

Descendants

• English: nautilus
• Translingual: Nautilus

References

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æm?na?t/

Etymology 1

From French ammonite, from Latin Amm?nis (corn?) (“horn of Ammon”), as it was called by Pliny the Elder. Equivalent to Ammon +? -ite.

Noun

ammonite (plural ammonites)

1. Any of an extinct group of cephalopods of the subclass Ammonoidea; a fossil shell of such an animal.

   Synonyms: ammonid, ammonoid

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From ammonium nitrate.

Noun

ammonite (uncountable)

1. An explosive prepared from a mixture of TNT and ammonium nitrate; a form of amatol, popular in Eastern Europe and China.

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• “ammonite” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

French

Noun

ammonite f (plural ammonites)

1. ammonite

Italian

Noun

ammonite m (plural ammoniti)

1. ammonite (extinct cephalopod)
2. ammonite(most rare mineral)
3. Synonym of ammolite

Verb

ammonite

1. second-person plural present indicative of ammonire
2. second-person plural imperative of ammonire
3. feminine plural of ammonito

Anagrams

• menomati, mentiamo, mitomane

Latin

Participle

ammonite

1. vocative masculine singular of ammonitus