different between ursus vs arctophilia

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *orssos, from Proto-Indo-European *h???t?os (“bear”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ?????? (árktos), Persian ???? (xers), Albanian ari and Sanskrit ???? (??k?a).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ur.sus/, [??rs??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ur.sus/, [?ursus]

Noun

ursus m (genitive urs?); second declension

1. a bear

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

• ursa
• urs?na
• urs?nus

Descendants

• Aragonese: onso
• Aromanian: ursu, ursã
• Asturian: osu
• Catalan: ós
• Corsican: orsu
• Esperanto: urso
• Friulian: ors
• Italian: orso
• Ladin: lors
• Ladino: lonso
• Occitan: ors
• Old French: urs
  • Middle French: ours
    • French: ours
• Old Portuguese: usso, osso, husso
  • Galician: oso
  • Portuguese: usso
• Old Spanish: osso
  • Spanish: oso
• ? Portuguese: urso
• Romanian: urs
• Romansch: urs, uors
• Sardinian: ursu
• Sicilian: ursu
• Translingual: Ursus
• Venetian: ors, orso
• Walloon: oûsse

References

• ursus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ursus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ursus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• ursus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ursus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (árktos, “bear”) + ????? (philía, “affection”)

Noun

arctophilia (uncountable)

1. love of bears
2. zoophilia with bears
3. collecting teddy bears (arctophily)

Related terms

• Antarctic
• Antarctica
• Arctic
• arctophobia
• Arcturus
• arktos
• Arthur
• Artur

Anagrams

• cartophilia