Translingual

Wikispecies

Proper noun

Mimus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Mimidae.

References

• Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0691128276

Latin

Noun

mīmus m ‎(genitive mīmī); second declension

1. mime
2. mime actor (male)

Inflection

Second declension.

Related terms

• mima

Descendants

• Catalan: mim
• Russian: мим ‎(mim)

References

• mimus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mimus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• MIMUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “mimus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• mimus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mimus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin