Noun: emys
| Singular | emys |
| Plural | emydes |
Sample Sentences
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Certain Emydes…tend to the Sea-tortoises or Turtles…and yet exhibit characters peculiar to themselves. [1843, The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, XXV, page 57/2:]
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Remains of the elephant…the beaver, the emys…and goats. [1873, James Murdoch Geikie, The Great Ice Age and Its Relation to the Antiquity of Man, page 492, Appendix:]
Nouns inflected like emys
adnexitis,
radiculoneuritis,
polyneuritis,
laryngopharyngitis,
pyramis,
dermatomyositis,
uveitis,
panencephalitis,
meningoencephalitis,
perityphlitis,
tetraeteris,
aseptic meningitis,
meraspis,
perineuritis,
vulvitis,
blepharitis,
promulsis,
sphaeraphis,
parotis,
parulis, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From the translingual genus name Emys and its etymon, the Classical Latin emys, from the Ancient Greek ἐμύς (emús). See: Latin Nouns '
emys', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ἐμύς'.