different between moose vs hippopotamus

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: mo?os, IPA^(key): /mu?s/
• Rhymes: -u?s
• Homophone: mousse

Etymology 1

Earlier mus, moos, from an Eastern Algonquian language name for the animal, such as Massachusett moos, mws, Narragansett moos or Penobscot mos (cognate to Abenaki moz), from Proto-Algonquian *mo·swa (“it strips”), referring to how a moose strips tree bark when feeding: compare Massachusett moos-u (“he strips, cuts smooth”).

Noun

moose (plural moose or (dated, rare) mooses or (non-standard, jocular) meese)

1. (US, Canada) The largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus, sometimes included in Alces alces), of which the male has very large, palmate antlers.

   We saw a moose at the edge of the woods.

2. (informal) An ugly person.

Usage notes

• The usual plural of moose is moose; compare the names of many animals, such as deer and fish, which are also invariant. Other plurals are rare and non-standard: mooses (with the usual English plural-forming suffix -s) and meese (jocularly formed by analogy to goose ? geese).

Synonyms

• (largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus)): elk (British), Newfoundland speed bump (Canadian, humorous)

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Irish: mús
• ? Khmer: ????? (muuhs??)
• ? Korean: ?? (museu)
• ? Persian: ???? (mus)
  • ? Arabic: ????? (m??)
• ? Thai: ??? (múus)
  • Thai: ??????? (gwaang-mûut)

Translations

See also

• moose on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Japanese ??? (“girl”).

Noun

moose

1. (US, military, slang) An Asian girl taken as a lover.
   • 2005, Rupert Nelson, Like the Rings of a Tree (page 279)

     In military bases in the rear areas it was common for soldiers to have a moose.

   • 2011, Michael Cullen Green, Black Yanks in the Pacific (page 75)

     Even the lowest ranked serviceman, because of his salary, benefits, and status as an American occupationaire, could afford to “maintain a 'Moose' and still take care of his other obligations.

References

Ojibwe

Noun

moose (plural mooseg)

1. worm
2. caterpillar

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English mous

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mus]

Noun

moose (plural mice)

1. mouse

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