rhinoceros
See also: rhinocéros
English
A rhinoceros.
Etymology
From Latin rhīnocerōs, from Ancient Greek ῥῑνόκερως (rhīnókerōs), composed of ῥίς (rhís, “nose”) + κέρας (kéras, “horn”).
Pronunciation
Noun
rhinoceros (plural rhinoceros or rhinoceroses or (nonstandard) rhinoceri or (archaic) rhinocerotes)
- 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.
- 1658, Brown, Thomas, “Of Unicorns Horn”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or Enquiries Into Very many Received Tenents And commonly Presumed Truths. The Fourth Edition, page 203:
- Herein therefore to draw up our determinations beside the several pieces of Scripture mentioning this Animal (which some may well contend to be only meant of the Rhinoceros) we are so far from denying there is any Unicorn at all, that we affirme there are many kinds thereof. In the number of Quadrapedes we will concede no less then five; that is the Indian Oxe, Indian Ass, Rhinoceros, the Oryx, and that which is more eminently termed Monoceros, or Unicornis.
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Hyponyms
- black rhinoceros
- Indian rhinoceros
- Javan rhinoceros
- lesser one-horned rhinoceros
- Sumatran rhinoceros
- white rhinoceros
- woolly rhinoceros
Derived terms
Translations
herbivorous pachyderm with horn(s)
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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ῥινόκερως (rhinókerōs).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /riːˈno.ke.roːs/, [riːˈnɔ.kɛ.roːs]
Noun
rhīnocerōs m (genitive rhīnocerōtis); third declension
- rhinoceros
- vessel made of a rhinoceros's horn
- nickname for someone with a long nose
Inflection
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | rhīnocerōs | rhīnocerōtēs |
| Genitive | rhīnocerōtis | rhīnocerōtum |
| Dative | rhīnocerōtī | rhīnocerōtibus |
| Accusative | rhīnocerōta rhīnocerōtem |
rhīnocerōtas rhīnocerōtēs |
| Ablative | rhīnocerōte | rhīnocerōtibus |
| Vocative | rhīnocerōs | rhīnocerōtēs |
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
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