different between nautilus vs nautilite

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

Etymology

nautilus +? -ite

Noun

nautilite (plural nautilites)

1. A fossil nautilus.