archeopteryx

See also: archaeopteryx, Archaeopteryx, and archæoptéryx

English

a reconstruction of an archæopteryx

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• archaeopteryx, archaiopteryx, archæopteryx

Etymology

English archaeo- (“ancient”, “primitive”) (from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos)) + English -o- + (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek πτέρυξ (ptérux, “wing”, “bird”)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

archeopteryx (plural archeopteryxes)

1. A specimen of the species , 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), 始祖鸟 (zh) (shǐzǔniǎo)

• Czech: archeopteryx (cs)
• Danish: archaeopteryx, archæopteryx
• Dutch: archaeopteryx
• Esperanto: arkeopterigo
• Finnish: archaeopteryx
• French: archéoptéryx (fr) m, archæoptéryx m, archéoptéryx (fr) m, (genus), Archaeopteryx m, (species), Archaeopteryx lithographica 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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latvian: arheopterikss
• Lithuanian: archeopteriksas
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: urfugl m, archaeopteryx

  Nynorsk: urfugl m, archaeopteryx

• Polish: archaeopteryx
• Portuguese: arqueoptérix m or f
• Romanian: archaeopteryx
• 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

Further reading

• “archeopteryx”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• archeopteryx, archaeopteryx at Google Ngram Viewer

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈarxɛoptɛrɪks]

Noun

1. archeopteryx

Related terms

• See archón

Further reading

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