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

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɹaɪˈnɒsəɹəs/
  • (US) enPR: rī-näsʹə-rəs, IPA(key): /ɹaɪˈnɑːsəɹəs/
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Noun

rhinoceros (plural rhinoceros or rhinoceroses 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.
    • 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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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ῥινόκερως (rhinókerōs).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /riːˈno.ke.roːs/, [riːˈnɔ.kɛ.roːs]

Noun

rhīnocerōs m (genitive rhīnocerōtis); third declension

  1. rhinoceros
  2. vessel made of a rhinoceros's horn
  3. 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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