amphibious

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ἀμφίβιος (amphíbios). From ἀμφί (amphí) + βίος (bíos, “life”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [æmˈfɪbi.əs]

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

amphibious

1. Capable of functioning on land or in water.
2. Occurring on both land and water.

   an amphibious attack

Related terms

• amphibian

Translations

capable of functioning on land or in water

• Catalan: amfibi (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 兩棲／两栖 (zh) (liǎngqī), 两栖 (zh) (liǎngqī)

• Czech: obojživelný (cs)
• Esperanto: amfibia (eo)
• Finnish: amfibinen (fi)
• French: amphibie (fr)
• German: amphibisch (de)
• Greek: αμφίβιος (el) m (amfívios)
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• Interlingue:
• Irish: amfaibiach, débheathach, loscánta
• Italian: anfibio (it)
• Latin: amphibius
• Macedonian: водозе́мен (vodozémen)
• Malay: dualam, amfibia
• Portuguese: anfíbio (pt)
• Russian: земново́дный (ru) (zemnovódnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: muir-thìreach m, dà-bheathach, dà-bhitheach
• Spanish: anfibio (es)

occurring on both land and water

• Catalan: amfibi (ca)
• Finnish: amfibio-
• Irish: amfaibiach
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• Macedonian: водозе́мен (vodozémen)
• Portuguese: anfíbio (pt)

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: amfibisch (nl)
• French: amphibie (fr) m or f
• German: amphibisch (de)
• Italian: anfibio (it) m, anfibia (it) f
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• Japanese: 水陸両用
• Korean: 수륙 양용
• Serbo-Croatian: amfibijski (sh)