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hippo
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?h?p??/
- (US) IPA(key): /?h?po?/
- Rhymes: -?p??
Noun
hippo (plural hippos)
- Clipping of hippopotamus.
- 2006 "The Eastern Cape village whose dam has been taken over by a hippo will decide next week what happens to the animal." Weekend Argus 24 June 2006.
Derived terms
- hippo fly
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rhinoceros
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)
- 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.
- (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
- rhinoceros
- vessel made of a rhinoceros's horn
- 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
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