different between wombat vs rhinoceros

English

Etymology

From Dharug wambad, wambaj, or wambag. It was originally written whom-batt in English.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?w?m?bæt/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w?m.bæt/

Noun

wombat (plural wombats)

1. Any of several herbivorous, burrowing marsupials, of the family Vombatidae, mainly found in southern and eastern Australia.

Translations

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???m.b?t/

Noun

wombat m (plural wombats, diminutive wombatje n)

1. wombat

French

Etymology

From English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w??.ba/, /v??.ba/

Noun

wombat m (plural wombats)

1. wombat

Synonyms

• phascolome (dated)

Further reading

• “wombat” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Indonesian

Noun

wombat (first-person possessive wombatku, second-person possessive wombatmu, third-person possessive wombatnya)

1. wombat

Interlingua

Noun

wombat

1. wombat

Polish

Noun

wombat m anim

1. wombat

Declension

Portuguese

Noun

wombat m (plural wombats)

1. Alternative form of vombate

English

Etymology

From Latin rh?nocer?s, from Ancient Greek ????????? (rh?nóker?s), composed of ??? (rhís, “nose”) + ????? (kéras, “horn”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?a??n?s???s/
• (US) enPR: r?-näs??-r?s, IPA^(key): /?a??n?s???s/

Noun

rhinoceros (plural rhinoceros or rhinoceroses or rhinocerosses or (nonstandard) rhinoceri or (archaic) rhinocerotes)

1. Any of several large herbivorous pachyderms native to Africa and Asia of the five extant species in the three extant genera in the family Rhinocerotidae, with thick, gray skin and one or two horns on their snouts.
2. (by extension) A member of the superfamily Rhinocerotoidae, including the hornless Paraceratherium.

Hyponyms

• black rhinoceros
• Indian rhinoceros
• Javan rhinoceros
• lesser one-horned rhinoceros
• Sumatran rhinoceros
• white rhinoceros
• woolly rhinoceros

Derived terms

• rhino
• rhinoceros beetle

Translations

See also

• abada
• crash

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (rhinóker?s).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ri??no.ke.ro?s/, [ri??n?k??o?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ri?no.t??e.ros/, [ri?n??t?????s]

Noun

rh?nocer?s m (genitive rh?nocer?tis); third declension

1. rhinoceros
2. vessel made of a rhinoceros's horn
3. nickname for someone with a long nose

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

• rhinoceros in Karl Ernst Georges, Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch
• rhinoceros in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• rhinoceros in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rhinoceros in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette