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leopard
English
Alternative forms
- lybard (14th-16th centuries)
- libbard (14th-19th centuries)
Etymology
From Middle English leopard, leopart, lepard, leperd, from Old French leopard (“leopard”), from Late Latin leopardus (“leopon, lipard”) from late Ancient Greek ????????? (leópardos, “leopon, lipard”), from ???? (lé?n, “lion”) + ?????? (párdos, “pard, male leopard”), from earlier ???????? (párdalis, “leopard”), probably from an unattested Old Persian [Term?] term ancestral to Middle Persian palang, Khwarezmian plyk, Sogdian [script needed] (pwr?nk), Pashto ??????. Compare Persian ????? (palang) and Sanskrit ?????? (p?d?ku, “panther”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?l?p?d/
- (US) IPA(key): /?l?p?d/
Noun
leopard (plural leopards)
- Panthera pardus, a large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and Asia, especially the male of the species (in contrast to leopardess).
- 1990, Dorothy L. Cheney, How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species, 1992, page 284,
- During all such cases when we were present they responded by giving repeated alarm calls, even when the leopard was already feeding on a carcass. We wanted to determine whether vervets knew enough about the behavior of leopards to recognize that, even in the absence of a leopard, a carcass in a tree signaled the same potential danger as did a leopard itself.
- 1998, Oded Borowski, Every Living Thing: Daily Use of Animals in Ancient Israel, page 201,
- The leopard (Panthera pardus or Felis pardus cf tulliana) is a close relative of the lion, but biblical references mentioning it are very few, suggesting that it was not as common.
- 2005, Richard Ellis, Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn: The Destruction of Wildlife for Traditional Chinese Medicine, page 197,
- Leopard skins have always been desirable commodities because of their spectacular spotted patterns.
- 1990, Dorothy L. Cheney, How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species, 1992, page 284,
- (inexact) A similar-looking, large wild cat named after the leopard.
- 2005, Eric Dinerstein, Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations, p. 81:
- There are plenty of beautiful cats among the thirty-nine species in the Felidae family, but the three leopards—clouded, common, and snow—may be the most visually stunning. Cloaked in the most beautiful fur of any cat, the reclusive clouded leopard is the Greta Garbo of the lot; it lives a solitary life in the remote jungles of Asia, from Nepal to Borneo.
- The clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa), a large wild cat native to Asia.
- The snow leopard (Panthera uncia), a large wild cat native to Asia.
- 2005, Eric Dinerstein, Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations, p. 81:
- (heraldry) A lion passant guardant.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Phalanta, having black markings on an orange base.
Synonyms
- (Panthera pardus): common leopard, pard, pardal
- (Neofelis nebulosa): See clouded leopard
- (Panthera uncia): See snow leopard
Hypernyms
- See cat and wild cat
- panther
Hyponyms
- (female): leopardess
- (young): cub, leopard cub
Derived terms
Related terms
- camelopard
- pard
- pardal
Translations
See also
- (hybrid formed by a leopard and a lioness): leopon
- (hybrid formed by a lion and a leopardess): lipard
References
Anagrams
- paroled, preload
Crimean Tatar
Etymology
From Latin leopardus (“leopard”).
Noun
leopard
- leopard
Declension
References
- Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?l?opart]
Noun
leopard m anim (feminine leopardice)
- leopard
- Synonym: levhart
Derived terms
- leopardice
Further reading
- leopard in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- leopard in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Danish
Pronunciation
Noun
leopard c (singular definite leoparden, plural indefinite leoparder)
- leopard
Declension
Further reading
- “leopard” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “leopard” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
leopard m (definite singular leoparden, indefinite plural leoparder, definite plural leopardene)
- a leopard (big cat, Panthera pardus)
Derived terms
- snøleopard
See also
- panter
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
leopard m (definite singular leoparden, indefinite plural leopardar, definite plural leopardane)
- a leopard (as above)
Derived terms
- snøleopard
See also
- panter
Romanian
Etymology
From French léopard, Latin leopardus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?le.o?pard/
- Hyphenation: le?o?pard
Noun
leopard m (plural leoparzi)
- leopard
Declension
Further reading
- leopard in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lêopa?rd/
- Hyphenation: le?o?pard
Noun
l?op?rd m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)
- leopard
Declension
Swedish
Noun
leopard c
- leopard
Declension
Descendants
- ? Finnish: leopardi
Anagrams
- polerad
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green
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, General Australian) enPR: gr?n, IPA(key): /??i?n/
- (US, Canada) enPR: gr?n, IPA(key): /??in/
- Rhymes: -i?n
Etymology 1
From Middle English grene, from Old English gr?ne, from Proto-West Germanic *gr?n?, from Proto-Germanic *gr?niz (compare North Frisian green, West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, Low German grön, green, greun, German grün, Danish and Norwegian Nynorsk grøn, Swedish grön, Norwegian Bokmål grønn, Icelandic grænn), from Proto-Indo-European *g?reh?- (“to grow”). More at grow.
Adjective
green (comparative greener, superlative greenest)
- Having green as its color.
- Synonyms: verdant, vert
- (figuratively, of people) Sickly, unwell.
- Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
- (figuratively) Inexperienced.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:inexperienced
- 2008, Richard R. Rust, Renegade Champion: The Unlikely Rise of Fitzrada (page 91)
- He acted like a green racehorse, plunging over his jumps, tearing to the front of the field of riders.
- (figuratively, of people) Naive or unaware of obvious facts.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:gullible
- (figuratively, of people) Overcome with envy.
- (figuratively) Environmentally friendly.
- Synonym: eco-friendly
- (cricket) Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
- (dated) Of bacon or similar smallgoods: unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.
- Synonyms: raw, unprocessed, unsmoked
- (dated) Not fully roasted; half raw.
- 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard
- We say the meat is green when half roasted.
- 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard
- (film, television, historical) Of film: freshly processed by the laboratory and not yet fully physically hardened.
- 1947, Theatre Catalog (volume 5, page 570)
- Following initial drying of film in a motion picture laboratory (after treatment in a hardening-fixing bath) the gelatin structure of an emulsion contracts and is permanently changed. The hardening action still continues for a time as a further small amount of residual moisture is given up. While traces of excess moisture remain, the emulsion is "green," relatively soft, […]
- 1961, American Cinematographer (volume 42, page 618)
- […] attaching pre-photographed and pre-printed footage of a focusing chart to daily film footage without taking into consideration that such film may be worn or dried out and therefore, in its plane of best focus, would not be identical to that of the green film of the daily rushes.
- 1947, Theatre Catalog (volume 5, page 570)
- Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried: containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.
- (wine) High or too high in acidity.
- Synonym: tart
- Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:new
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
- as valid against such an old and beneficent government as against […] the greenest usurpation
- (Philippines) Having a sexual connotation.
- (particle physics) Having a color charge of green.
- Being or relating to the green currencies of the European Union.
Antonyms
- (having green as its colour): nongreen, ungreen
- (having green as its colour charge): antigreen
- (of bacon: unprocessed): processed, smoked, spiced
- (of wine: high in acidity): cloy, sweet
- (of certain fruits: ready to be eaten): ripe
Derived terms
Pages starting with “green”.
Related terms
Translations
See green/translations § Adjective.
References
Etymology 2
From Middle English grene, from the adjective (see above).
Noun
green (plural greens)
- The colour of growing foliage, as well as other plant cells containing chlorophyll; the colour between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum; one of the primary additive colour for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and blue from white light using cyan and yellow filters.
- (politics, sometimes capitalised) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
- Synonyms: environmentalist, (Australian) greenie, tree hugger, treehugger
- Hyponyms: blue green, red green
- (golf) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
- (bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played.
- Synonym: bowling green
- (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
- (Britain) a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
- A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
- (chiefly in the plural) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
- Any substance or pigment of a green colour.
- A green light used as a signal.
- 1992, "How to Avoid the Most Embarrassing of Pilot Errors", in Flying Magazine (volume 119, number 6, page 94)
- To the casual cockpit observer, landing-gear operation appears to be one of the most elementary tasks we have to perform. Either the switch is up and the lights are out, or it's down and there are three greens.
- 1992, "How to Avoid the Most Embarrassing of Pilot Errors", in Flying Magazine (volume 119, number 6, page 94)
- (Britain, slang, uncountable) marijuana.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana
- (US, slang, uncountable) Money.
- (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See green/translations § Noun.
Etymology 3
From Middle English grenen, from Old English gr?nian (“to become green, flourish”), from Proto-Germanic *gr?nij?n?, *gr?nijan? (“to become green”), from the adjective (see above). Cognate with Saterland Frisian gräinje, German Low German grönen, German grünen, Swedish gröna, Icelandic gróna.
Verb
green (third-person singular simple present greens, present participle greening, simple past and past participle greened)
- (transitive) To make (something) green, to turn (something) green.
- Great spring before greened all the year.
- To become or grow green in colour.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Ancient Sage
- Her dust is greening in your leaf
- 1886, John Greenleaf Whittier, "Flowers in Winter"
- by greening slope and singing flood
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Ancient Sage
- (transitive) To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.).
- 2000, AIA Guide to New York City (page 58)
- The newer 39-story, 1.5-million-square-foot tower occupies much of the original Shearson Garden, a larger parklet that briefly greened the construction site to be, and is remembered fondly by nearby Tribecans.
- 2000, AIA Guide to New York City (page 58)
- (intransitive) To become environmentally aware.
- (transitive) To make (something) environmentally friendly.
Synonyms
- (make (something) green): engreen
Derived terms
Translations
See green/translations § Verb.
See also
Anagrams
- Egner, Geren, genre, neger, regen
Czech
Etymology
From English green.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??ri?n]
Noun
green m
- (slang, golf) green (a putting green; the part of a golf course near the hole)
Usage notes
Although the official term for the green is jamkovišt?, it is rarely used in practice. Instead, unofficial Czech versions of the English word green, variously spelled green, grýn, and grín, are used in practice.
Declension
References
Danish
Etymology
From English green.
Noun
green c (definite singular greenen, indefinite plural greens, definite plural greenene)
- (golf) a green, putting green (the closely mown area surrounding each hole on a golf course)
Further reading
- “green” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Etymology 1
Borrowed from North Germanic, from Old Norse gr?n.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?re?n/
- Hyphenation: green
- Rhymes: -e?n
Noun
green m (plural grenen)
- (obsolete) Scots pine, Pinus sylvestris
- Synonym: grove den
Derived terms
- grenen
- grenenhout
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English green.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ri?n/
- Hyphenation: green
- Rhymes: -i?n
Noun
green m (plural greens)
- (golf) green, putting green
German Low German
Alternative forms
- gren
- (in some other dialects) gröön (grön)
- (in some other dialects) gräun
Adjective
green
- (Low Prussian) green
Middle English
Alternative forms
- gre, gree
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French greer; equivalent to gre +? -en.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??re??n/
Verb
green (Late Middle English)
- To come to an understanding or agreement.
- (rare) To make a compact of reconciliation.
Conjugation
Descendants
- English: gree (obsolete)
- Scots: gree
References
- “gr??en, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-15.
North Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian gr?ne, from Proto-West Germanic *gr?n?, from Proto-Germanic *gr?niz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?re?n/
Adjective
green
- (Föhr-Amrum, Sylt) green
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
green m (definite singular greenen, indefinite plural greener, definite plural greenene)
- (golf) a green, putting green (the closely mown area surrounding each hole on a golf course)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
green m (definite singular greenen, indefinite plural greenar, definite plural greenane)
- (golf) a green or putting green (the closely mown area surrounding each hole on a golf course)
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ri?n/
- Rhymes: -i?n
Noun
green c
- (golf) a green, putting green (the closely mown area around a hole on a golf course)
Declension
Anagrams
- gener, genre, neger
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