astacus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek αστακός (astakós, “smooth lobster”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈas.ta.kus/, [ˈas.ta.kʊs]

astacus m (genitive astacī); second declension

1. A kind of crab

Second declension.

• Italian: astice

• astacus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• astacus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• astacus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• astacus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• astacus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• astacus in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly