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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)

1. 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.

2. (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.

   1. The clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa), a large wild cat native to Asia.
   2. The snow leopard (Panthera uncia), a large wild cat native to Asia.
3. (heraldry) A lion passant guardant.
4. 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

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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 ?????????)

1. leopard

Declension

Swedish

Noun

leopard c

1. leopard

Declension

Descendants

• ? Finnish: leopardi

Anagrams

• polerad

English

Alternative forms

• mowse (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English mous, from Old English m?s, from Proto-West Germanic *m?s, from Proto-Germanic *m?s, from Proto-Indo-European *muh?s.

The computing sense was coined by American engineer Bill English in 1965 and first used publicly in a publication titled "Computer-Aided Display Control".

Pronunciation

Noun

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ma?s/
• (US) enPR: mous, IPA^(key): /ma?s/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /m??s/
• Rhymes: -a?s

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ma?s/, /ma?z/
• (US) enPR: mous, mouz, IPA^(key): /ma?s/, /ma?z/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /m??s/, /ma?z/
• Rhymes: -a?s, -a?z

Noun

mouse (plural mice)

1. Any small rodent of the genus Mus.

   • At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.

2. (informal) A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling such a rodent.
3. A quiet or shy person.
5. (computing) (plural mice or, rarely, mouses) An input device that is moved over a pad or other flat surface to produce a corresponding movement of a pointer on a graphical display.
6. (boxing) A facial hematoma or black eye.
7. (nautical) A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straightening out.
8. (obsolete) A familiar term of endearment.
9. A match used in firing guns or blasting.
10. (set theory) A small model of (a fragment of) Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with desirable properties (depending on the context).
11. (historical) A small cushion for a woman's hair.

Hypernyms

• (small rodent): rodent

Hyponyms

Coordinate terms

• (small rodent): rat
• (input device): joystick, trackpad, trackball, pointing stick

Derived terms

Related terms

• muss

Descendants

Translations

Verb

mouse (third-person singular simple present mouses, present participle mousing, simple past and past participle moused)

1. (intransitive) To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around).
2. (intransitive) To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats. [from 12th c.]
3. (transitive, nautical) To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire.

   Captain Higgins moused the hook with a bit of marline to prevent the block beckets from falling out under slack.

4. (intransitive, computing) To navigate by means of a computer mouse.
   • 1988, MacUser, Volume 4

     I had just moused to the File menu and the pull-down menu repeated the menu bar's hue a dozen shades lighter.
5. (obsolete, nonce word, transitive) To tear, as a cat devours a mouse.

Derived terms

Translations

Related terms

• muscle
• mussel

Further reading

• mouse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• mouse (computing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Computer mouse on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Mice on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
• Mus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• meous, moues

Chinese

Etymology

From English mouse.

Pronunciation

Noun

mouse

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) mouse (Classifier: ??? c; ??? c)

Synonyms

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English mouse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?maws/

Noun

mouse m (invariable)

1. (computing, computer hardware) mouse (for a PC)

Derived terms

• tappetino per mouse

Anagrams

• esumo, esumò, museo

Middle English

Noun

mouse

1. Alternative form of mous

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English mouse.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?maw.zi/, /?mawz/

Noun

mouse m (plural mouses)

1. (Brazil, computer hardware) mouse (input device used to move a pointer on the screen)

   Synonym: (Portugal) rato

2. (Brazil, loosely) pointer; cursor (moving icon that indicates the position of the mouse)

   Synonyms: ponteiro, cursor

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mouse.

Romanian

Alternative forms

• maus

Etymology

Borrowed from English mouse.

Noun

mouse n (plural mouse-uri)

1. (computing) mouse (for a PC)

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English mouse. Doublet of mur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?maus/, [?mau?s]

Noun

mouse m (plural mouses)

1. (computing, chiefly Latin America) mouse (input device)

   Synonym: ratón