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Etymology [edit]
Middle English reptil, from Old French reptile, from Late Latin rēptile, neuter of reptilis (“creeping”), from Latin rēpō (“to creep”), from Proto-Indo-European *rep- (“to creep, slink”) (Pokorny; Watkins, 1969).
Pronunciation [edit]
reptile (plural reptiles)
- A cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia.
- (figuratively) A mean or grovelling person.
- Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
- "That reptile," whispered Pott, catching Mr. Pickwick by the arm, and pointing towards the stranger. "That reptile — Slurk, of the Independent!"
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Translations [edit]
a cold-blooded vertebrate
- Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
- Afrikaans: reptiel (af)
- Albanian: rrëshqanor (sq)
- Arabic: زَحّافَة (ar) (zaḥḥāfa) f
- Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: սողուն (hy) (soġun), զեռուն (hy) (zeṙun)
- Asturian: reptil
- Avar: please add this translation if you can
- Azeri: sürünən (az) (pl: sürünənlər (az))
- Bashkir: please add this translation if you can
- Basque: narrasti (eu)
- Belarusian: рэптылія (be) (reptýlija) f, паўзун (be) (paŭzún) m
- Bengali: সরীসৃপ (bn) (sôrisrip)
- Bishnupriya Manipuri: please add this translation if you can
- Breton: stlejvil
- Bulgarian: влечуго (bg) (vlečúgo) n
- Burmese: တွားသွားကောင် (my) (twa:thwa:kaung)
- Catalan: rèptil (ca) m
- Chechen: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 爬蟲類, 爬虫类 (paa4 cung4 leoi6)
- Mandarin: 爬蟲 (cmn), 爬虫 (cmn) (páchóng), 爬蟲類 (cmn), 爬虫类 (cmn) (páchónglèi)
- Min Nan: 爬蟲 (nan), 爬虫 (nan) (pâ-thiông)
- Corsican: please add this translation if you can
- Crimean Tatar: sürüngen
- Czech: plaz (cs) m
- Danish: krybdyr (da)
- Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: reptiel (nl) n
- Esperanto: reptilioj (eo)
- Estonian: roomajad (et)
- Faroese: skriðdýr (fo), skriðdjór (fo) n
- Finnish: matelija (fi)
- French: reptile (fr) m
- Friulian: please add this translation if you can
- Galician: réptil (gl)
- Georgian: ქვეწარმავალი (de) (k'vec'armavali)
- German: Kriechtier (de) n, Reptil (de) n, Wurm (de) m (poetic)
- Greek: ερπετό (el) (erpetó)
- Ancient: ἑρπετόν (erpetón) n
- Hawaiian: moʻo
- Hebrew: זוֹחֵל (he) (zoħél) m
- Hindi: सर्पणशील (hi) (sarpanśil), सरीसृप (hi) (sarīsṛap)
- Hungarian: hüllő (hu)
- Icelandic: skriðdýr (is),
- Ido: reptero (io)
- Indonesian: reptil (id)
- Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
- Interlingue: please add this translation if you can
- Irish: reiptíl (ga) f
- Italian: reptilia (it) f, rettile (it) m
- Japanese: 爬虫 (ja) (はちゅう, hachū), 爬虫類 (ja) (はちゅうるい, hachūrui)
- Javanese: please add this translation if you can
- Kazakh: бауырымен жорғалаушылар (kk) (bawırımen jorğalawşılar)
- Khmer: ល្មូន (km) (lmoon), ឧរង្គសត្វ (km) (u rong sat)
- Korean: 파충류 (ko) (pachungnyu) (爬蟲類 (ko)), 파충 (ko) (pachung) (爬蟲 (ko))
- Kurdish: please add this translation if you can
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- Lao: ເລືອຄານ (lo) (lya-khaan)
- Latin: reptilia (la)
- Latvian: rāpuļi (lv)
- Limburgish: reptiele (li)
- Lithuanian: roplys (lt) m
- Low German:
- German Low German: Krüüpdeer, Kruupdeer
- Luxembourgish: Reptil (lb) n
- Macedonian: влекач (mk) (vlékač) m
- Malay: reptilia (ms), binatang reptilia (ms), haiwan reptilia (ms)
- Malayalam: ഉരഗം (ml)
- Maltese: please add this translation if you can
- Marathi: सर्प्ट्णारा प्रािण (mr)
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Navajo: naaldlooshii dadichʼízhii
- Norwegian: reptil (no) n, krypdyr (no)
- Norwegian Nynorsk: krypdyr (nn)
- Novial: reptere
- Occitan: reptilia (oc)
- Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: خزنده (fa) (xazande)
- Polish: gad (pl) m
- Portuguese: réptil (pt) m
- Quechua: suchuq (qu)
- Romanian: reptilă (ro)
- Romansch: reptil (rm) m
- Russian: пресмыкающееся (ru) (presmykájuščejesja) n, рептилия (ru) (reptílija) f, гад (ru) (gad) m (colloquial: includes reptiles, amphibians, molluscs, etc.)
- Samogitian: ruoplē
- Scottish Gaelic: snàigean (gd) m, pèist (gd) f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: гмаз (sh) m, гмизавац (sh) m, рептил (sh) m
- Roman: gmaz (sh) m, gmizavac (sh) m, reptil (sh) m
- Sicilian: rettili (scn) m
- Slovak: plaz (sk) m
- Slovene: plazílec (sl) m
- Spanish: reptil (es) m
- Sundanese: réptil (su)
- Swahili: please add this translation if you can
- Swedish: reptil (sv) c
- Tagalog: please add this translation if you can
- Tajik: рептилия (tg) (reptiliya)
- Tamil: ஊர்வன (ta) (urvana)
- Telugu: సరీసృపం (te) (sareesrupam)
- Thai: สัตว์เลื้อยคลาน (th) (sàt léuay klaan)
- Turkish: sürüngen (tr)
- Tuvan: соястаарлар (sojastaarlar)
- Ukrainian: плазун (uk) (plazún) m, рептилія (uk) (reptýlija) f
- Upper Sorbian: łažaki (hsb)
- Vietnamese: động vật bò sát (vi)
- Volapük: (♂♀) räptul (vo), (♂) hiräptul (vo), (♀) jiräptul (vo), (♂♀ offspring) räptulül (vo), (♂ offspring) hiräptulül (vo), (♀ offspring) jiräptulül (vo)
- Welsh: ymlusgiad (cy)
- West Frisian: reptyl (fy)
- Yiddish: רעפּטיליע (yi) (reptilye, reptilje) f, רעפּטיליעס (yi) (reptilyen, reptiljen) f pl, שרץ (yi) (sherets, scherez) m, שרצים (yi) (shrotsim, schrozim) m pl
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Adjective [edit]
rēptile
- neuter nominative singular of rēptilis
- neuter accusative singular of rēptilis
- neuter vocative singular of rēptilis