attagen

English

Alternative forms
  • attagas

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin attagēn.

Noun

attagen (plural attagens)

  1. A sandgrouse (Syrrhaptes paradoxus) found in Asia and rarely in southern Europe.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for attagen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ττᾰγήν (attagḗn).

Pronunciation

Noun

attagēn m (genitive attagēnis); third declension

  1. A type of ground bird, probably a partridge or francolin.

Declension

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative attagēn attagēnēs
Genitive attagēnis attagēnum
Dative attagēnī attagēnibus
Accusative attagēnem attagēnēs
Ablative attagēne attagēnibus
Vocative attagēn attagēnēs

Descendants

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