mastodont
English
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French mastodonte.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌmɑs.toːˈdɔnt/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: mas‧to‧dont
- Rhymes: -ɔnt
Noun
mastodont m (plural mastodonten, diminutive mastodontje n)
- mastodon, mammal of the family Mammutidae, especially of the genus Mammut [from 1807]
- 1807 April 3, "Wetenschappen, letteren en kunsten", Koninklijke courant, issue 80, page 3.
- Het is deze laatſte bijzonderheid, die uitgedrukt wordt door den geſlachtsnaam van Mastodonten, of dieren met borst-voerende tanden, welken de Heer Cuvier hun gegeven heeft.
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- 1807 April 3, "Wetenschappen, letteren en kunsten", Koninklijke courant, issue 80, page 3.
- someone or something of enormous size
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mastǒdont/
- Hyphenation: mas‧to‧dont
Declension
Declension of mastodont
singular | plural | |
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nominative | mastòdont | mastodonti |
genitive | mastodonta | mastòdonātā |
dative | mastodontu | mastodontima |
accusative | mastodonta | mastodonte |
vocative | mastodonte | mastodonti |
locative | mastodontu | mastodontima |
instrumental | mastodontom | mastodontima |
References
- “mastodont” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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