archeopteryx

See also: archaeopteryx, Archaeopteryx, and archæoptéryx

English

a reconstruction of an archeopteryx

Alternative forms

• archaeopteryx, archaiopteryx, archæopteryx

Etymology

English archaeo- (“ancient”, “primitive”) (from Ancient Greek ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos)) + English -o- + Ancient Greek πτέρυξ (ptérux, “wing”, “bird”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: äkē.ŏpʹtərĭks, IPA^(key): /ɑɹkiˈɒptəɹɪks/ (US), IPA^(key): /ɑːkiːˈɒptəɹɪks/,

• Audio (Mid-Atlantic)

  (file)

Noun

archeopteryx (plural archeopteryxes)

1. A specimen of the species Archaeopteryx lithographica, being the earliest and most primitive known bird, representing a transition in the evolution of dinosaurs to birds.
   • 1935, Zoological Society of London, Proceedings, page 758:

     Since Pterosaurians are triassic and the Archæopteryges jurassic we are justified in regarding the actual chronology of external integument in the geological strata as : first, scale ; second, hair ; and third, feather. This inspires us to make a wider appeal to geology in order to have a comprehensive sketch of the avian sequence.

Translations

ancient bird

• Breton: arkaeopteryks
• Catalan: arqueòpterix
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 始祖鳥／始祖鸟 (zh) (shǐzǔniǎo)

• Czech: archeopteryx (cs)
• Danish: archaeopteryx, archæopteryx
• Dutch: archaeopteryx
• Esperanto: arkeopterigo
• Finnish: archaeopteryx
• French: archéoptéryx (fr) m
• German: Urvogel m, Archäopteryx m, Archaeopteryx (de) m
• Hindi: आद्यपक्षी (ādyapakṣī)
• Hungarian: archaeopteryx
• Icelandic: öglir m
• Italian: archeotterige m
• Japanese: 始祖鳥 (ja) (しそちょう, shisochō)
• Latvian: arheopterikss
• Lithuanian: archeopteriksas
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: urfugl m, archaeopteryx

  Nynorsk: urfugl m, archaeopteryx

• Polish: archeopteryks m
• Portuguese: arqueoptérix m or f
• Romanian: arheopterix (ro) m
• Russian: археопте́рикс (ru) m (arxeoptériks)
• Slovak: archaeopteryx
• Slovene: praptič, arheópteriks
• Spanish: archaeopteryx, arqueoptérix
• Swedish: archaeopteryx
• Turkish: archaeopteryx (tr)
• Volapük: (foreign term) el Archaeopteryx, (foreign term) elaf Archaeopteryx, ruböd

References

• archeopteryx on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Archaeopteryx on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Archaeopteryx on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• “archeopteryx”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• archeopteryx, archaeopteryx at Google Ngram Viewer

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈarxɛoptɛrɪks]

Noun

archeopteryx m anim

1. archeopteryx

Declension

Declension of archeopteryx (soft masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	archeopteryx	archeopteryxové
genitive	archeopteryxe	archeopteryxů
dative	archeopteryxovi, archeopteryxi	archeopteryxům
accusative	archeopteryxe	archeopteryxe
vocative	archeopteryxi	archeopteryxové
locative	archeopteryxovi, archeopteryxi	archeopteryxích
instrumental	archeopteryxem	archeopteryxi

Related terms

• See archón

Further reading

• archeopteryx in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• archeopteryx in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989