trygon

See also: Trygon

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τρῡγών (trūgṓn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtryː.ɡoːn/, [ˈt̪ryːɡoːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.ɡon/, [ˈt̪riːɡon]

Noun

trȳgōn m (genitive trȳgōnis); third declension

1. stingray (fish, Dasyatis pastinaca)
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9:

     Sed nūllum usquam execrābilius quam radius super caudam ēminēns trȳgōnis, quam nostrī pastinācam appellant, quīncunciālī magnitūdine: arborēs īnfīxus rādīcī necat, arma ut tēlum perforat vī ferrī et venēnī malō.

     But nothing anywhere is as detestable as the spine projecting above the tail of the sting ray, called by us 'parsnip', of five twelfths of a foot in size: it kills trees when driven to the root, punctures weapons like a sword with the force of iron and the evilness of venom.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	trȳgōn	trȳgōnēs
genitive	trȳgōnis	trȳgōnum
dative	trȳgōnī	trȳgōnibus
accusative	trȳgōnem	trȳgōnēs
ablative	trȳgōne	trȳgōnibus
vocative	trȳgōn	trȳgōnēs

See also

• raia

References

• “trygon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• trygon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.