cetus

See also: Cetus

Latin

Alternative forms

• cētos n

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos, “any sea-monster or huge fish”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkeː.tus/, [ˈkeːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.tus/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːt̪us]

Noun

cētus m (genitive cētī); second declension

1. Any large sea-animal, such as a whale, shark, seal, dogfish, dolphin, or tuna, or a sea monster.
2. The constellation Cetus, the Whale

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cētus	cētī
Genitive	cētī	cētōrum
Dative	cētō	cētīs
Accusative	cētum	cētōs
Ablative	cētō	cētīs
Vocative	cēte	cētī

Related terms

• Cētō

References

• “cetus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cetus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cetus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cetus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers