different between silurus vs silure

English

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

silurus (plural siluri or siluruses)

1. (zoology) Any fish of the genus Silurus; a sheatfish.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (sílouros).

Noun

sil?rus m (genitive sil?r?); second declension

1. sheatfish

Declension

Second-declension noun.

References

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

English

Etymology

Latin silurus (“a sort of river fish”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (sílouros, “a very large sort of river fish”).

Noun

silure (plural silures)

1. A fish of the genus Silurus, such as the sheatfish; a siluroid.

Anagrams

• Luries, Suriel

French

Etymology

Latin sil?rus, in turn from Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.ly?/

Noun

silure m (plural silures)

1. wels catfish (Silurus glanis)

Synonyms

• silure glane

Further reading

• “silure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Noun

sil?re

1. vocative singular of sil?rus