dino

See also: Dino, DINO, dino-, diño, Diño, diñó, Dîno, d-ino, and D-ino

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪnoʊ/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɪnəʊ

Noun

dino (plural dinos)

1. (informal) dinosaur.

Derived terms

• dino juice

Anagrams

• Dion, Indo-, NOID, Odin, do in, doin, doin', indo, nido-, nodi

Catalan

Verb

dino

1. first-person singular present indicative form of dinar

Dutch

Etymology

Likely borrowed from English dino. Equivalent to a clipping of dinosaurus. The term became especially prominent after the release of Jurassic Park in 1993, but predated the film by at least one or two years.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdi.noː/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: di‧no
• Rhymes: -inoː

Noun

dino m (plural dino's, diminutive dinootje n)

1. (informal) A dino, a dinosaur; archosaur of the super-order Dinosauria. [from late 20th c.]

Synonyms

• dinosauriër (formal)
• dinosaurus

Finnish

Etymology

Clipping of dinosaurus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdino/, [ˈdino̞]
• Rhymes: -ino
• Syllabification^(key): di‧no

Noun

dino

1. (informal) dino

Declension

Inflection of dino (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative		dino	dinot
genitive		dinon	dinojen
partitive		dinoa	dinoja
illative		dinoon	dinoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		dino	dinot
accusative	nom.	dino	dinot
	gen.	dinon
genitive		dinon	dinojen
partitive		dinoa	dinoja
inessive		dinossa	dinoissa
elative		dinosta	dinoista
illative		dinoon	dinoihin
adessive		dinolla	dinoilla
ablative		dinolta	dinoilta
allative		dinolle	dinoille
essive		dinona	dinoina
translative		dinoksi	dinoiksi
instructive		—	dinoin
abessive		dinotta	dinoitta
comitative		—	dinoineen

Possessive forms of dino (type valo)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	dinoni	dinomme
2nd person	dinosi	dinonne
3rd person	dinonsa

Anagrams

• nido

French

Etymology

From dinosaure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.no/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -o
• Homophone: dinos

Noun

dino m (plural dinos)

1. dino

Related terms

• dinosaure

Javanese

Noun

dino

1. Nonstandard spelling of dina.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒĩ.nu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒĩ.nu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒi.no/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈdi.nu/

Etymology 1

Adjective

dino (feminine dina, masculine plural dinos, feminine plural dinas)

1. (obsolete or poetic) Alternative form of digno

Etymology 2

Shortening of dinossauro (“dinosaur”).

Noun

dino m (plural dinos)

1. (familiar) dinosaur (any of various extinct reptiles belonging to the Dinosauria)

   Synonym: dinossauro

Spanish

Adjective

dino (feminine dina, masculine plural dinos, feminine plural dinas)

1. Obsolete spelling of digno

Further reading

• “dino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014