acrostichoides
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek [Term?].
Adjective
editacrostichoīdēs (neuter acrostichoīdes or acrostichoīdēs); third-declension one-termination adjective (Greek-type)
- (New Latin) resembling a leather fern (of genus Acrostichum)
Usage notes
edit- Used exclusively as a taxonomic epithet and thus normally in the nominative singular; other inflections may be theoretical or rarely found.
Declension
editThird-declension one-termination adjective (Greek-type).
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | acrostichoīdēs | acrostichoīdes1 acrostichoīdēs |
acrostichoīdēs | acrostichoīdia | |
Genitive | acrostichoīdis | acrostichoīdum acrostichoīdium | |||
Dative | acrostichoīdī | acrostichoīdibus | |||
Accusative | acrostichoīdem | acrostichoīdes1 acrostichoīdēs |
acrostichoīdēs | acrostichoīdia | |
Ablative | acrostichoīde acrostichoīdī |
acrostichoīdibus | |||
Vocative | acrostichoīdes1 acrostichoīdēs |
acrostichoīdēs | acrostichoīdia |
1It is unknown if Classical Latin preserved (or would have preserved) the shortness of the original Greek short ending.