aquiline
Meaningeagle-like
Common meaning: hooked like an eagle's beak
- aquilan eagleLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 148 · scan
- ineadjective ending: of the nature of
Journey through time
- Latinaquila, -ae‘an eagle’
- Frenchaquilin
- Englishaquiline‘hooked like an eagle's beak’ · today
aquil also in: eagle
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Latin aquila ‘an eagle’.
Roots
- aquila, -ae Latin “an eagle”
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