omnivore

English

Etymology

From the Latin omnivorus. By surface analysis, omni- +‎ -vore.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒmnɪvɔː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑmnɪvɔɹ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

omnivore (plural omnivores)

1. An animal which is able to consume both plants (like a herbivore) and meat (like a carnivore).

   Coordinate terms: herbivore, carnivore, folivore, frugivore, insectivore, hemovore

   Bears are omnivores: they can eat plants, but they also eat fish.

Derived terms

• omni
• omnivoracity
• omnivorous
• omnivorousness
• omnivory

Related terms

• devourer

Translations

animal eating both plants and meat

• Afrikaans: omnivoor (af), alleseter
• Arabic: حَيَوَان قَارِت m (ḥayawān qārit), حَيَوَان كَالِش m (ḥayawān kāliš)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Breton: hollzebrer m
• Bulgarian: всеядно животно (vsejadno životno)
• Catalan: omnívor m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雜食動物 / 杂食动物 (zh) (záshí dòngwù), 雜食獸 / 杂食兽 (zh) (záshíshòu)

• Czech: všežravec (cs) m
• Danish: altæder c, omnivor (da) c
• Dutch: omnivoor (nl) m, alleseter (nl) m
• Finnish: kaikkiruokainen (fi)
• French: omnivore (fr) m
• Galician: omnívoro (gl) m
• Georgian: ყველაფრისმჭამელი (q̇velaprismč̣ameli), ყველაფრის მჭამელი (q̇velapris mč̣ameli)
• German: Allesfresser (de), Omnivore (de) m
• Greek: παμφάγος (el) m (pamfágos)
• Hindi: सर्वाहारी m (sarvāhārī)
• Hungarian: mindenevő (hu)
• Icelandic: alæta (is) f
• Indonesian: omnivor (id)
• Italian: onnivoro (it) m
• Japanese: 雑食動物 (ざっしょくどうぶつ, zasshokudōbutsu)
• Khmer: សព្វាសី (km) (sob pea sei)
• Korean: 잡식동물(雜食動物) (ko) (japsikdongmul)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: giştxur

• Macedonian: сештоја́д m (seštojád)
• Malay: binatang maserba, haiwan maserba, haiwan omnivor, omnivor
• Malayalam: മിശ്രഭുക്ക് (miśrabhukkŭ)
• Māori: kaikiota
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: alteter m, omnivor m

  Nynorsk: altetar m, omnivor m

• Polish: wszystkożerca m
• Portuguese: onívoro (pt)
• Russian: всея́дный (ru) (vsejádnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: svaštožder, svaštojedac, svaštojed
• Spanish: omnívoro (es) m
• Swedish: allätare (sv) c, omnivor (sv) c
• Tagalog: tanankain
• Turkish: hepçil (tr)
• Welsh: hollysydd m

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin omnivorus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔm.ni.vɔʁ/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

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Adjective

omnivore (plural omnivores)

1. omnivorous

Noun

omnivore m (plural omnivores)

1. omnivore

See also

• carnivore
• herbivore
• insectivore

Further reading

• “omnivore”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /omˈni.vo.re/
• Rhymes: -ivore
• Hyphenation: om‧nì‧vo‧re

Adjective

omnivore

1. feminine plural of omnivoro

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔmˈnɪ.wɔ.rɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [omˈniː.vo.re]

Adjective

omnivore

1. vocative masculine singular of omnivorus