Atthis

Translingual

Etymology

New Latin, after Atthis (“a mythological Greek woman, after whom Actaea was renamed Attica”), from Ancient Greek Ἀτθίς (Atthís).

Proper noun

Atthis f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Trochilidae – certain hummingbirds.

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