English

Noun

teuthis

1. (Ancient Greece) A small squid.
   • 1862, Aristotle, History of Animals:

     “[…] Compared with one another, the teuthis, or calamary, is long-shaped, and the sepia flat-shaped; and of the calamaries the so-called teuthus is much bigger than the teuthis; for teuthi have been found as much as five ells long.”