Learned borrowing fromAncient Greekἄρκτος(árktos,“bear”).Doublet ofUrsus.

arctos

1. A species name descriptor.
   1. A descriptor related to bears, for bears and bear-like species.
      1. Ellipsis ofUrsus arctos(“brown bear”)
   2. A descriptor for species related to the northern polar region, from association withUrsa Major,Ursa Minor and itsPolaris (the North Star).
      1. Ellipsis ofCanis lupus arctos(“Arctic wolf”)

• arcticus(a Latin word for the Arctic, also derived from the Bear constellations)
• ἀρκτικός(arktikós)(a Greek word for the northern polar lands, derived from the Bear constellations)

arctōs

1. accusativemasculineplural ofarctus

• “arctos”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "arctos", in Charles du Fresne du Cange,Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “arctos”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “arctos”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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