honos

Hungarian

Etymology

hon +‎ -os

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈhonoʃ]
  • Hyphenation: ho‧nos
  • Rhymes: -oʃ

Adjective

honos (not generally comparable, comparative honosabb, superlative leghonosabb)

  1. (biology, of a species) endemic, native (which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by humans)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative honos honosak
accusative honosat honosakat
dative honosnak honosaknak
instrumental honossal honosakkal
causal-final honosért honosakért
translative honossá honosakká
terminative honosig honosakig
essive-formal honosként honosakként
essive-modal
inessive honosban honosakban
superessive honoson honosakon
adessive honosnál honosaknál
illative honosba honosakba
sublative honosra honosakra
allative honoshoz honosakhoz
elative honosból honosakból
delative honosról honosakról
ablative honostól honosaktól
non-attributive
possessive – singular
honosé honosaké
non-attributive
possessive – plural
honoséi honosakéi

Derived terms

  • honosít → meghonosít, honosítás
  • honosodik → meghonosodik → meghonosodott → meghonosodottság
  • honosság
  • honosul → meghonosul → meghonosult → meghonosultság
Compound words
  • külhonos
  • őshonos

Further reading

  • honos in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Latin

Noun

honōs m (genitive honōris); third declension

  1. alternative form of honor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

  • honos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • honos”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • honos”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • honos”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Welsh

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhɔnɔs/
  • Rhymes: -ɔnɔs

Noun

honos m (plural honosiaid or honosod, not mutable)

  1. ling (Molva spp.)
  2. common ling (Molva molva)
    Synonym: brenhinbysg

Derived terms

  • honos glas (blue ling)
  • honos Sbaen (Spanish ling)

Further reading

  • Cymdeithas Edward Llwyd (2018), “Y Bywiadur”, in Llên natur[1], retrieved 4 November 2025.
  • Griffiths, Bruce; Glyn Jones, Dafydd (1995), “ling”, in Geiriadur yr Academi: The Welsh Academy English–Welsh Dictionary[2], Cardiff: University of Wales Press, →ISBN
  • D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “honos”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “honos”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies