different between xiphias vs xiphioid

English

Etymology

From Latin xiphi?s.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?z?f??s/

Noun

xiphias

1. A swordfish.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.xii:

     Huge Ziffius, whom Mariners eschew / No lesse, then rockes, as travellers informe […]

   • 1700, Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London, vol 3, p. 38:

     S. Malpighi having dissected the Head of a Xiphias or Sword Fish, which hath a very big Eye, observ'd that the middle of the Optick Nerve is nothing else, but a large Membrane, folded according to its length in many Doubles almost like a Fan, and invested by the Dura Mater.

   • 1857, Bostock & Riley, trans. Pliny, Natural History, 32.vi:

     Trebius Niger informs us that […] the xiphias, or, in other words, the sword-fish, has a sharp-pointed muzzle, with which it is able to pierce the sides of a ship and send it to the bottom […]

   • 1863, Prof. Huxley, "Structure and development of the vertebrate skeleton", The Lancet, 23 May 1863:

     In the xiphias, you observe, the enormous elongation of the head is produced by the elongation of the jaws proper – that is to say, of the pre-maxilla and nasal bones.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (xiphías), derived from ????? (xíphos, “sword”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ksi.p?i.a?s/, [?ks??p?iä?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ksi.fi.as/, [?ksi?fi?s]

Noun

xiphi?s m (genitive xiphiae); first declension

1. a swordfish, Xiphias gladius
2. a sword-shaped comet

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -?s).

Synonyms

• (swordfish): gladius

Related terms

• xiphion

Descendants

• Translingual: Xiphias

References

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

English

Etymology

From ????? (xiphía), from ????? (xíphos, “sword”) +? -oid

Adjective

xiphioid (comparative more xiphioid, superlative most xiphioid)

1. (zoology) resembling or related to the genus Xiphias (swordfish).
2. (zoology) resembling or related to the family Xiphiidae (a group of fish).

Noun

xiphioid (plural xiphioids)

1. (zoology) Any member of the genus Xiphias or family Xiphiidae.