rhinoceros

See also rhinocéros, and Rhinoceros

English

Wikipedia

A rhinoceros.

Etymology

From Latin rhinoceros, from Ancient Greek ῥινόκερως (rhinokerōs), composed of ῥίς (rhis, “nose”) + κέρας (kéras, “horn”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /raɪˈnɒsərəs/, X-SAMPA: /raI"nQs@r@s/
• (US) enPR: rī-näsʹə-rəs, IPA: /raɪˈnɑːsərəs/, X-SAMPA: /raI"nA:s@r@s/

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Noun

rhinoceros (plural rhinoceros, less commonly: rhinoceroses or rare, academic: rhinocerotes)

1. Any of several large herbivorous pachyderms native to Africa and Asia of the five genera in the family Rhinocerotidae, with thick, gray skin and one or two horns on their snouts.
   • 1658, Thomas Brown, “Of Unicorns Horn”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or Enquiries Into Very many Received Tenents And commonly Presumed Truths. The Fourth Edition^[1], 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.

Usage notes

• In natural history, the plural rhinoceros is often used, in the same way that the singular of the names of many wild animals is often used in natural history as the plural (compare gazelle, elephant, etc).
• The plurals rhinoceri and rhinoceroi are often found, formed by association with other Latin and Greek plurals, though they do not represent true Latin or Greek forms.
• The Latin-derived plural form rhinocerotes is usually considered as a plural of the archaic form rhinocerot.

Hyponyms

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

Translations

herbivorous pachyderm with horn(s)

• Afrikaans: renoster (af)
• Arabic: وحيد القرن (ar) (waHiid al-qarn) m, كركدن (ar) (karkáddan) m
• Armenian: ռնգեղջյուր (hy) (ṙngeġǰyur)

  Old Armenian: ռնգեղջիւր (ṙngełǰiwr)

• Asturian: rinoceronte (ast) m
• Azeri: kərgədan (az)
• Basque: errinozero (eu)
• Belarusian: насарог (be) (nasaróh) m
• Bengali: গন্ডার (bn)
• Bulgarian: носорог (bg) (nosoróg) m
• Burmese: ကြံ့ (my) (kyan.)
• Catalan: rinoceront (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Chinese Characters: 犀

  Mandarin: 犀牛 (cmn) (xīniú)

• Chuvash: носорог
• Crimean Tatar: kerkedan
• Czech: nosorožec (cs) m
• Danish: næsehorn (da) n
• Dutch: neushoorn (nl) m
• Esperanto: rinocero (eo)
• Estonian: ninasarvik (et)
• Finnish: sarvikuono (fi)
• French: rhinocéros (fr) m
• Galician: rinoceronte (gl) m
• Georgian: მარტორქა (ka) (martork'i)
• German: Nashorn (de) n
• Greek: ρινόκερος (el) (rinókeros) m, ρινόκερως (el) (rinókeros) m, ριονκερώντος (el) (rionkeróntos) m
• Hebrew: קרנף (he) m
• Hindi: गैंडा (hi)
• Hungarian: rinocérosz (hu)
• Icelandic: nashyrningur (is) m
• Indonesian: badak (id)
• Irish: srónbheannach (ga) m2
• Italian: rinoceronte (it) m
• Japanese: 犀 (ja), サイ (ja) (sai)
• Javanese: warak (jv)
• Jèrriais: rhinocéros m
• Kazakh: мүйізтұмсық (kk) (müyiztumsıq)

• Korean: 코뿔소 (ko) (koppulso)
• Kyrgyz: носорог (ky) (nosorog)
• Latin: rhinoceros (la) m
• Lithuanian: raganosis (lt) m
• Macedonian: носорог (mk) (nósorog) m
• Malay: badak sumbu (ms)
• Manx: stroineairkagh (gv) m
• Marathi: गेंडा (mr) (gendaa)
• Mongolian: хирс (mn) (hirs)
• Navajo: déélgééd
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nesehorn (nb) n

  Nynorsk: nashorn (nn) n, nashyrning (nn) m

• Ossetian: сыкъафындз (sykhafyndz)
• Persian: کرگدن (fa) (kargadan)
• Polish: nosorożec (pl) m
• Portuguese: rinoceronte (pt) m
• Romanian: rinocer (ro) m
• Russian: носорог (ru) (nosoróg) m
• Santali: ᱜᱚᱱᱰ ᱜᱟᱨᱩᱲ (gandd gaarurr)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: носорог (sh) m

  Roman: nosorog (sh) m

• Slovene: nosorog (sl) m
• Spanish: rinoceronte (es) m
• Swahili: kifaru (sw) (noun 7/8)
• Swedish: noshörning (sv) c
• Tatar: мөгезборын (tt) (mөgezborın)
• Thai: แรด (th)
• Tswana: tshukudu (tn)
• Turkish: gergedan (tr)
• Ukrainian: носоріг (uk) (nosoríh) m
• Uzbek: karkidon (uz)
• Vietnamese: tê giác (vi) (犀角 (vi))
• Volapük: (♂♀) rinoserod (vo), (♂) hirinoserod (vo), (♀) jirinoserod (vo), (♂♀ offspring) rinoserodül (vo), (♂ offspring) hirinoserodül (vo), (♀ offspring) jirinoserodül (vo)
• West Frisian: noashoarn (fy)
• Wolof: wànga-lànga wi (wo)

See also

• abada
• crash

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Latin

Noun

rhīnocerōs (genitive rhīnocerōtis); m, third declension

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

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	rhīnocerōs	rhīnocerōtēs
genitive	rhīnocerōtis	rhīnocerōtum
dative	rhīnocerōtī	rhīnocerōtibus
accusative	rhīnocerōtem	rhīnocerōtēs
ablative	rhīnocerōte	rhīnocerōtibus
vocative	rhīnocerōs	rhīnocerōtēs