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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?da?no?/
• Rhymes: -a?n??

Noun

dino (plural dinos)

1. (informal) dinosaur.

Anagrams

• Dion, Indo-, NOID, Odin, do in, doin, doin', indo, nido-, nodi

Catalan

Verb

dino

1. first-person singular present indicative form of dinar

Dutch

Etymology

Likely borrowed from English dino. Equivalent to a clipping of dinosaurus. The term became especially prominent after the release of Jurassic Park in 1993, but predated the film by at least one or two years.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?di.no?/
• Hyphenation: di?no
• Rhymes: -ino?

Noun

dino m (plural dino's, diminutive dinootje n)

1. (informal) A dino, a dinosaur; archosaur of the super-order Dinosauria. [from late 20th c.]

Synonyms

• dinosauriër (formal)
• dinosaurus

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dino/, [?dino?]
• Rhymes: -ino
• Syllabification: di?no

Noun

dino

1. (informal) dino

Declension

Anagrams

• nido

French

Etymology

From dinosaure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.no/
• Rhymes: -o
• Homophone: dinos

Noun

dino m (plural dinos)

1. dino

Related terms

• dinosaure

Javanese

Noun

dino

1. Nonstandard spelling of dina.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?di.nu/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?d??i.nu/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?d??i.no/

Etymology 1

Adjective

dino m (feminine singular dina, masculine plural dinos, feminine plural dinas, comparable)

1. (obsolete or poetic) Alternative form of digno

Etymology 2

Shortening of dinossauro (“dinosaur”).

Noun

dino m (plural dinos)

1. (familiar) dinosaur (any of various extinct reptiles belonging to the Dinosauria)

   Synonym: dinossauro

Spanish

Adjective

dino (feminine dina, masculine plural dinos, feminine plural dinas)

1. Obsolete spelling of digno

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?nt/
• (US)
• Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology 1

From Middle English dint, dent, dünt, from Old English dynt (“dint, blow, strike, stroke, bruise, stripe; the mark left by a blow; the sound or noise made by a blow, thud”), from Proto-Germanic *duntiz (“a blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?en- (“to strike, hit”). Cognate with Swedish dialectal dunt, Icelandic dyntr (“a dint”). More at dent.

Alternative forms

• dunt

Noun

dint (countable and uncountable, plural dints)

1. (obsolete) A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.
   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, xxxi:

     Between them cross-bows stood, and engines wrought / To cast a stone, a quarry, or a dart, // From whence, like thunder's dint, or lightnings new, / Against the bulwarks stones and lances flew.

2. Force, power; especially in by dint of.

   • O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel / The dint of pity

   • 1805, Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, XVIII:

     It was by dint of passing strength / That he moved the massy stone at length.

3. The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.
   • His hands had made a dint, and hurt his maid;
     Explored her limb by limb, and feared to find
     So rude a gripe had left a livid mark behind.

Derived terms

• by dint of

Translations

Verb

dint (third-person singular simple present dints, present participle dinting, simple past and past participle dinted)

1. To dent.

Etymology 2

Contraction

dint

1. Pronunciation spelling of didn’t.

Anagrams

• NDTI, idn't, tind

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin d?ns, dentem. Compare Italian dente, Romansch dent, Venetian dénte, Romanian dinte, French dent, Spanish diente.

Noun

dint m (plural din?h)

1. tooth

Derived terms

• dintidure

Middle English

Alternative forms

• dent, dente, dunt, dynt, dynte, dont, dount, dinnt

Etymology

From Old English dynt, from Proto-Germanic *duntiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dint/, /d?nt/, /dunt/

Noun

dint (plural dintes or (Early ME) dunten)

1. The landing of a weapon; a blow or stroke.

2. (by extension) Warfare, battle; the use of weaponry.
3. The strike, landing or force of a tool or other item hitting something.
4. The striking or noise of thunder; a thunderclap.
5. (rare) A strike with one's limbs or body.
6. (rare) An injury resulting from a weapon's impact.

Derived terms

• dinten

Descendants

• English: dent, dint, dunt
• Scots: dunt, dont, dynt, dint, dent

References

• “dint, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-05-05.

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French dent, from Latin d?ns, dentem.

Noun

dint f

1. (anatomy) tooth