Terminology record for fin
RECORD
| Record No.: | 298/en/549 |
| Author: | ELAD D. F. |
| Creation date: | |
| Last updated: | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
| 🇫🇷 FRENCH | ||||
| DOMAINE |
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| VEDETTE | * Nageoire statut : recommandé
* Aileron (nom féminin) statut : admis | |||
| PARTIE DU DISCOURS | nom féminin | |||
| ÉTYMOLOGIE | Nageoire | |||
| SOURCE DE L'ETYMOLOGIE |
Grand Robert de la langue française, en 6 volumes version 2.0 (2005). Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (8th ed.) (2010). | |||
| DÉFINITION |
Organe plat formé d'une membrane soutenue par des rayons osseux et qui sert d'appareil propulseur (qui lui permet de nager) et stabilisateur aux poissons et à certains autres animaux aquatiques. | |||
| PLURIEL | Ailerons ; Nageoires ; | |||
| SOURCE DE DÉFINITION | Fishterm | |||
| 🇬🇧 ENGLISH | ||||
| SUBJECT FIELD |
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| TERM | * Fin status: recommended
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| PART OF SPEECH | noun | |||
| PLURAL | Fins ; | |||
| ETYMOLOGY | Old English finn, fin, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vin and probably ultimately to Latin pinna ‘feather, wing’. | |||
| ETYMOLOGY SOURCE |
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (8th ed.) (2010). Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019). | |||
| DEFINITION |
a thin, flat appendage on the body of a fish or other aquatic animal that helps manoeuvre the body through the water. | |||
| DEFINITION SOURCE |
SCRS (2001) | |||
