donax

Borrowed from Latin donax (“reed; also a marine fish”), from Ancient Greek δόναξ (dónax).

donax (plural donaxes)

1. (dated) A canelike grass of southern Europe (Arundo donax), used for fishing rods, etc.

   Synonym: giant cane

• “donax”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From Ancient Greek δόναξ (dónax).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdɔ.naks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd̪ɔː.naks]

donax m (genitive donacis); third declension

1. reed
2. A kind of marine fish
3. The male scallop or pecten

Third-declension noun.

• English: donax
• Translingual: Donax

• “donax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• donax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.