basiliscus

• basilischus

From Ancient Greek βᾰσῐλῐ́σκος (băsĭlĭ́skos), diminutive of βᾰσῐλεύς (băsĭleús, “king”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ba.sɪˈlɪs.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ba.s̬iˈlis.kus]

basiliscus m (genitive basiliscī); second declension

1. a basilisk
2. a cockatrice

Second-declension noun.

• → Old French: basilique
  • Middle French: basilic
    • French: basilic
  • → Middle English: basilicke, basilisk, basiliske, basylyk, basylyke
    • English: basilisk
• → Italian: basilisco
• Portuguese: basilisco
• Spanish: basilisco

• “basiliscus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "basiliscus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “basiliscus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “basiliscus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “basiliscus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray