Rosmarus

Translingual

Etymology

New Latin, Latinized from Old Norse rosmhvalr (“walrus”), from rosm (“red, red-brown”) + hvalr (“whale”). For the first element see Proto-Germanic *rustaz, though likely influenced by hross (“horse”); alternatively, from Finnish mursu.

Proper noun

Rosmarus m

1. (obsolete) A former genus containing the walruses (now in genus Odobenus).

Hypernyms

• (obsolete genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – supercohort; Eutheria – infraclass; Carnivora – order; Pinnipedia - division or suborder

Hyponyms

• (obsolete genus): Rosmarus arcticus (now Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus), Rosmarus indicus, Rosmarus morsus, Rosmarus virginianus - species

References

• “Rosmarus”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• Odobenus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Odobenus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Miller, John & Louise (2014): Walrus
• https://web.archive.org/web/20200929150221/https://neologisms.rice.edu/index.php?a=term&d=1&t=18674
• https://web.archive.org/web/20181115204130/http://www.viking.no/the-viking-heritage/the-viking-linguistic-heritage/v/
• Guus Kroonen, “Reflections on the o/zero-Ablaut in the Germanic Iterative Verbs”, in The Indo-European Verb: Proceedings of the Conference of the Society for Indo-European Studies, Los Angeles, 13-15 September 2010, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2012