Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAny of numerous species of small freshwater fish of the South American family Characidae and West African family Alestidae, popular in home aquariums.
From translingual Tetragonopterus, an obsolete genus that included these fish, ultimately from Ancient Greek τετράγωνος (tetrágōnos, “square, quadrilateral”) + πτερόν (pterón, “wing, fin”).
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- Derivation mentionτετράγωνοςgrc
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