amonite

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French ammonite, from Latin Ammōnis cornū (literally “horn of Ammon”), named by Pliny the Elder.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.moˈni.t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.moˈni.te/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.muˈni.tɨ/

Hyphenation: a‧mo‧ni‧te

Noun

amonite f (plural amonites)

(paleontology) ammonite (any of an extinct group of cephalopods of the subfamily Ammonoidea)

Spanish

Noun

amonite m (plural amonites)

(paleontology) ammonite (extinct cephalopod)

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