Lucanus

Translingual

Lucanus cervus

Etymology

Coined by Tyrolean physician and naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1763. Borrowed from Latin lucanus (“stag beetle”).

Proper noun

Lucanus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Lucanidae – stag beetles.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Holometabola – superorder; Coleoptera – order; Polyphaga – suborder; Scarabaeiformia – infraorder; Scarabaeoidea – superfamily; Lucanidae – family; Lucaninae - subfamily; Lucanini - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Lucanus cervus - type species

References

• Lucanus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Lucanus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Lucanus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin Lūca

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Italic *-nosder.

Proto-Italic *-ānos

Latin -ānus

Latin Lūcānus

From Lūca (“a city in Etruria”) + -ānus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫuːˈkaː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [luˈkaː.nus]

Proper noun

Lūcānus m (genitive Lūcānī); second declension

1. A resident of Lucania
2. The name of a Roman gēns.
3. The Roman poet Lucan.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Lūcānus	Lūcānī
genitive	Lūcānī	Lūcānōrum
dative	Lūcānō	Lūcānīs
accusative	Lūcānum	Lūcānōs
ablative	Lūcānō	Lūcānīs
vocative	Lūcāne	Lūcānī

Descendants

• Ancient Greek: Λουκανός (Loukanós)
• English: Lucan
• Italian: Lucano
• Middle French: Lucain
  • French: Lucain
• Translingual: Lucanus

References

• “Lucanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers