different between elephant vs rhinoceros

English

Etymology

From Middle English elefant, elefaunt, from Old French elefant, elefan, olifant, re-latinized in Middle French as elephant, from Latin elephantus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (eléph?s) (gen. ????????? (eléphantos)). Believed to be derived from an Afroasiatic form such as Proto-Berber *e?u (“elephant”) (compare Tahaggart Tamahaq êlu, Tamasheq alu) or Egyptian ?bw (“elephant; ivory”). More at ivory. Replaced Middle English olifant (from the aforementioned Old French form, from Vulgar Latin *olifantus), which replaced Old English elpend (“elephant”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l?f?nt/, /??l?f?nt/

Noun

elephant (countable and uncountable, plural elephants)

1. A mammal of the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and two large ivory tusks jutting from the upper jaw.
2. (in particular) Any member of the family Elephantidae not also of the genus Mammuthus.
3. (figuratively) Anything huge and ponderous.
4. (paper, printing) Synonym of elephant paper
5. (Britain, childish) used when counting to add length, so that each count takes about one second

   Let's play hide and seek. I'll count. One elephant, two elephant, three elephant...

6. (uncountable, obsolete) Ivory.

   • He sent rich gifts of elephant and gold.

Synonyms

• (animal): Elephas maximus, Loxodonta africana
• (counting term): see Appendix:Words used as placeholders to count seconds

Hyponyms

• (animal): African bush elephant, African forest elephant, Indian elephant, African elephant

Derived terms

Descendants

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• elephant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Elephant (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• heptenal

Middle French

Noun

elephant m (plural elephans)

1. elephant (animal)

Descendants

• French: éléphant
  • Haitian Creole: elefan
  • ? Romanian: elefant
• ? Irish: eilifint
• ? Norman: êléphant, éléphant

English

Etymology

From Latin rh?nocer?s, from Ancient Greek ????????? (rh?nóker?s), composed of ??? (rhís, “nose”) + ????? (kéras, “horn”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?a??n?s???s/
• (US) enPR: r?-näs??-r?s, IPA^(key): /?a??n?s???s/

Noun

rhinoceros (plural rhinoceros or rhinoceroses or rhinocerosses or (nonstandard) rhinoceri or (archaic) rhinocerotes)

1. Any of several large herbivorous pachyderms native to Africa and Asia of the five extant species in the three extant genera in the family Rhinocerotidae, with thick, gray skin and one or two horns on their snouts.
2. (by extension) A member of the superfamily Rhinocerotoidae, including the hornless Paraceratherium.

Hyponyms

• black rhinoceros
• Indian rhinoceros
• Javan rhinoceros
• lesser one-horned rhinoceros
• Sumatran rhinoceros
• white rhinoceros
• woolly rhinoceros

Derived terms

• rhino
• rhinoceros beetle

Translations

See also

• abada
• crash

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (rhinóker?s).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ri??no.ke.ro?s/, [ri??n?k??o?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ri?no.t??e.ros/, [ri?n??t?????s]

Noun

rh?nocer?s m (genitive rh?nocer?tis); third declension

1. rhinoceros
2. vessel made of a rhinoceros's horn
3. nickname for someone with a long nose

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

• rhinoceros in Karl Ernst Georges, Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch
• rhinoceros in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• rhinoceros in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rhinoceros in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette