different between hippopotamus vs anthracothere

English

Alternative forms

• hippopotamos (archaic)
• hippotamus (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin and New Latin hippopotamus, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (hippopótamos), from ????? (híppos, “horse”) (English hippo-) + ??????? (potamós, “river”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?p.??p?t.?.m?s/
• Hyphenation: hip?po?po?ta?mus

Noun

hippopotamus (plural hippopotamuses or hippopotamusses or hippopotami or hippopotamoi or hippopotamus)

1. A large, semi-aquatic, herbivorous (plant-eating) African mammal (Hippopotamus amphibius).

Synonyms

• (semi-aquatic mammal): hippo, river horse

Derived terms

• pygmy hippopotamus

Related terms

• hippo-
• potamic

Translations

Synonyms

• (a large, herbivorous African mammal): hippo, river horse

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????????? (hippopótamos), from ????? (híppos, “horse”) + ??????? (potamós, “river”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hip.po?po.ta.mus/, [h?p???p?t?äm?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ip.po?po.ta.mus/, [ip???p??t??mus]

Noun

hippopotamus m (genitive hippopotam?); second declension

1. a hippopotamus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

• English: hippopotamus
• Portuguese: hipopótamo

References

• hippopotamus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• hippopotamus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

anthraco- +? -there

Noun

anthracothere (plural anthracotheres)

1. Any of several artiodactyl ungulates, of the extinct family Anthracotheriidae, related to the hippopotamus.

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