different between nautilus vs spadix

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

Via Latin sp?d?x from Ancient Greek ??????? (sp??d?x, “palm branch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spe?d?ks/

Noun

spadix (plural spadixes or spadices)

1. (botany) A fleshy spike (inflorescence) with reduced flowers, usually enclosed by a spathe, characteristic of aroids.
2. (zoology) A male sexual organ of certain cephalopods and hydrozoans (especially the nautilus), used to transfer sperm.

Derived terms

• spadiceous

Translations

See also

• Araceae
• spathe

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ??????? (sp??d?x).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?spa?.di?ks/, [?s?pä?d?i?ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?spa.diks/, [?sp??d?iks]

Noun

sp?d?x m (genitive sp?d?cis); third declension

1. spadix, inflorescence (especially of a palm tree)
2. a type of lyre

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Adjective

sp?d?x (genitive sp?d?cis); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. chestnut-colored, chestnut (of a horse)
2. strong brown

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

References

• spadix in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• spadix in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• spadix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Noun

spadix n (plural spadice)

1. Alternative form of spadice

Declension