Etymology

cetacean

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Today it means: Pertaining to the zoologic infraorder Cetacea, or associated with species falling under that taxonomic hierarchy. Full definition →

translingual Cetacea ← Latin cētus
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  1. Latin · derived fromcētus“whale”
  2. translingual · derived fromCetacea
  3. English todaycetacean

From translingual Cetacea, from Latin cētus (“whale”), + -an.

Words from the same roots

Latincētus all →

Cetuscetanecetoleic

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.