different between oligo vs loligo

English

Etymology

Clipping of oligonucleotide

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??l??o?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??l????/

Noun

oligo (plural oligos)

1. (biochemistry) An oligonucleotide.

Synonyms

• oligonucleotide

Anagrams

• igloo, logoi, oglio

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Latin l?l?g?.

Noun

loligo (plural loligos)

1. A member of the Loligo genus of cephalopods; a squid.
   • 1658, Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus:

     the learned may consider the Crystalline humour of the eye in the cuttle fish and Loligo.

   • 1882, Popular Science (volume 21, number 46, October 1882, page 755)

     […] the loligos or squids, the sepias, and the argonauts or paper nautili, are among the best known of its representatives.

Latin

Alternative forms

• loll?g?

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /lo??li?.?o?/, [??o??li??o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /lo?li.?o/, [l??li???]

Noun

l?l?g? f (genitive l?l?ginis); third declension

1. a squid
2. a cuttlefish

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (cuttlefish): s?pia
• (squid): teuthis

Descendants

• Serbo-Croatian: lignja, lignjun
• Galician: lura
• Portuguese: lula
• Translingual: Loligo

References

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