rhinoceros

See also: rhinocéros

English

White rhinoceros

Etymology

From Latin rhīnocerōs, from Ancient Greek ῥῑνόκερως (rhīnókerōs, “nose-horned”), composed of ῥῑ́ς, ῥῑνός (rhī́s, rhīnós, “nose, of (the) nose”) + κέρας (kéras, “horn”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: rī-nŏsʹə-rəs; IPA^(key): /ɹaɪˈnɒs.ə.ɹəs/
• (US, Canada) enPR: rī-nŏʹsə-rəs; IPA^(key): /ɹaɪˈnɑ.sə.ɹəs/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɹɑɪˈnɔs.ə.ɹəs/

Noun

rhinoceros (plural rhinoceros or rhinoceroses or (uncommon) rhinocerosses or (nonstandard) rhinoceri or (nonstandard) rhinoceroi or (now rare) rhinocerotes)

1. Any of several large herbivorous ungulates native to Africa and Asia of the five extant species in the three extant genera in the family Rhinocerotidae, with thick, gray skin and one or two horns on their snouts.
   • 1658, Thomas Brown, “Of Unicorns Horn”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or Enquiries Into Very many Received Tenents And commonly Presumed Truths. The Fourth Edition‎^[1], page 203:

     Herein therefore to draw up our determinations beside the several pieces of Scripture mentioning this Animal (which some may well contend to be only meant of the Rhinoceros) we are so far from denying there is any Unicorn at all, that we affirme there are many kinds thereof. In the number of Quadrapedes we will concede no less then five; that is the Indian Oxe, Indian Ass, Rhinoceros, the Oryx, and that which is more eminently termed Monoceros, or Unicornis.

2. (paleontology) A member of the superfamily Rhinocerotoidea, including hornless members of the extinct genus Paraceratherium.

Hyponyms

• aceratheriin (†Aceratheriinae)
• African rhinoceros
• black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis)
• greater one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis)
• Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis)
• Javan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus)
• lesser one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus)
• Merck's rhinoceros (†Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis)
• narrow-nosed rhinoceros (†Stephanorhinus hemitoechus)
• one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros spp.)
• square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum)
• Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis)
• white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum)
• woolly rhinoceros (†Coelodonta antiquitatis)

 

Derived terms

• First Rhinoceros Party
• Second Rhinoceros Party
• rhino
• Rhino, Rhinos (cf. also the homophones: RINO, RINOs, Republican(s) In Name Only)
• rhinoceros auklet (Cerorhinca monocerata)
• rhinoceros beetle (Dynastinae spp.)
• rhinoceros bird (Bucerotidae spp.)
• Rhinoceros Party of Canada (French: Parti Rhinocéros du Canada) (1963–1993)
• Rhinoceros Party (French: Parti Rhinocéros)
• Rhino Party (French: Parti Rhino)

Translations

herbivorous pachyderm with horn(s)

• Abkhaz: аԥынҵатәыҩа (apəncʼatʷʼəjʷa), аҧынҵатәыҩа (apəncʼatʷʼəjʷa)
• Adyghe: пэбжъакъо (pɛbẑaqʷo), тхыцэ (txəcɛ)
• Afar: gasi
• Afrikaans: neushoring, renoster (af)
• Albanian: rinoqeront (sq) m
• Amharic: አውራሪስ (ʾäwraris)
• Arabic: وَحِيد اَلْقَرْن (ar) m (waḥīd al-qarn), كَرْكَدَّن m (karkaddan), حَرِيش m (ḥarīš), قَرنف

  Egyptian Arabic: خَرْتيت m (ḵartīt)

  Hijazi Arabic: وَحيد القَرْن m (waḥīd algarn), خَرْتيت m (ḵartīt)

• Aragonese: rinozerón m
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܟܪܟܕܢܐ m (karkǝḏānā)

• Armenian: ռնգեղջյուր (hy) (ṙngeġǰyur)

  Old Armenian: ռնգեղջիւր (ṙngełǰiwr)

• Assamese: গঁড় (gõr)
• Asturian: rinoceronte (ast) m
• Ateso: ekori
• Avar: гаргадан (gargadan)
• Azerbaijani: kərgədan (az)
• Bahing: गैंडा m (gaĩḍā)
• Bashkir: мөгөҙморон (mögöźmoron), кәркәдән (kərkədən) (archaism)
• Basque: errinozero (eu)
• Bau Bidayuh: badak
• Belarusian: насаро́г m (nasaróh)
• Beli: maca
• Bengali: গন্ডার (bn) (gonḍar), গণ্ডার (bn) (gonḍar)
• Bhojpuri: गैंडा m (gaiṇḍā)
• Breton: frikorneg (br) m
• Bulgarian: носоро́г (bg) m (nosoróg)
• Burmese: ကြံ့ (my) (kram.)
• Catalan: rinoceront (ca) m
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴱⵓⵢⵉⵙⴽ (buyisk)
• Central Melanau: badek
• Chechen: мермаӏа (mermaˀa)
• Cherokee: ᎳᏃᏏᎳ (lanosila)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 犀牛 (sai¹ ngau⁴)

  Dungan: дўҗүәшу (dwžüəšu)

  Hokkien: 犀牛 (zh-min-nan) (sai-gû)

  Mandarin: 犀牛 (zh) (xīniú)

• Chong: มาด
• Chuabo: pwette
• Chuvash: носорог (nos̬orog)
• Cornish: trongornvil m
• Crimean Tatar: kerkedan
• Czech: nosorožec (cs) m
• Danish: næsehorn (da) n
• Dhivehi: ގެންޑާ (gen̊ḍā)
• Digo: chifaru
• Dinka: cil
• Dutch: neushoorn (nl) m
• Egyptian: (šꜣqb) m
• Elfdalian: nųosörningg
• Erzya: сюронерь (śurońeŕ)
• Esperanto: rinocero (eo), nazkornulo
• Estonian: ninasarvik (et)
• Faroese: nashyrningur m
• Finnish: sarvikuono (fi)
• French: rhinocéros (fr) m
• Galician: rinoceronte (gl) m
• Georgian: მარტორქა (marṭorka)
• German: Nashorn (de) n, Rhinozeros (de) n (formal)
• Greek: ρινόκερος (el) m (rinókeros), ρινόκερως (el) m (rinókeros), ριονκερώντος m (rionkeróntos)

  Ancient: ῥινόκερως m (rhinókerōs)

• Greenlandic: siissisoq
• Guaraní: tĩatĩ
• Gujarati: ગેંડો m (geṇḍo)
• Hadza: tlakate
• Haitian Creole: rinosewòs
• Hausa: karkanda m or f
• Hebrew: קַרְנַף (he) m (karnaf)
• Hindi: गैंडा m (gaiṇḍā), भारतीय गैंडा m (bhārtīya gaiṇḍā), खड्ग (hi) m (khaḍg), खड्गधेनु (hi) f (khaḍgadhenu)
• Hungarian: rinocérosz (hu), orrszarvú (hu)
• Icelandic: nashyrningur (is) m
• Ido: rinocero (io)
• Indonesian: badak (id)
• Ingush: бирнал (birnal)
• Irish: srónbheannach m
• Italian: rinoceronte (it) m
• Japanese: 犀 (ja) (さい, sai), サイ (ja) (sai)
• Javanese: warak (jv)
• Kalmyk: орңһ (orñğ)
• Kannada: ಖಡ್ಗಮೃಗ (kn) (khaḍgamṛga)
• Kazakh: мүйізтұмсық (müiıztūmsyq)
• Khmer: រមាស (km) (rɔmiəh)
• Khoekhoe: ǃnawas f
• Kikuyu: huria class 9/10
• Korean: 코뿔소 (ko) (koppulso)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: کەرگەدەن (kergeden)

  Northern Kurdish: kergeden (ku)

• Kyrgyz: керик (ky) (kerik)
• Lak: каргадан (kargadan)
• Lakota: pȟasúhetȟuŋ
• Lao: ແຮດ (lo) (hǣt)
• Latin: rhīnocerōs m
• Latvian: degunradzis m
• Limburgish: naashoeare m
• Lingala: kángá class 9a/10a
• Lithuanian: raganosis m
• Luxembourgish: Nashorn n
• Maasai: ɛmʉ̂ny
• Macedonian: носорог m (nosorog)
• Malagasy: tokantandroka (mg)
• Malay: badak sumbu, badak raya, badak gajah, badak (ms)
• Malayalam: കാണ്ടാമൃഗം (ml) (kāṇṭāmr̥gaṁ)
• Manchu: ᡳᡥᠠᠰᡳ (ihasi)
• Manx: stroineairkagh m
• Marathi: गेंडा m (geṇḍā)
• Middle Persian: [script needed] (klg /⁠karg⁠/)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хирс (mn) (xirs)

  Mongolian: ᠬᠡᠷᠢᠰ (keris)

• Navajo: déélgééd
• Ndau: cipembere
• Nepali: गैंडा (gaiṇḍā)
• Newar: धिर्मेय् (dhirmeê)
• Norman: rhinocéros m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: neshorn (no) n

  Nynorsk: nashorn n, nashyrning m

• Occitan: rinocèros (oc) m
• Odia: ଗଣ୍ଡା (or) (gôṇḍa)
• Old East Slavic: ноздророгъ m (nozdrorogŭ)
• Old Javanese: warak
• Oromo: karkaarro
• Ossetian: сыкъафындз (syk’afynʒ)
• Pali: khaggavisāṇa m
• Pashto: ګېنډی m (genḍay)
• Persian: کرگدن (fa) (kargadan), کرگ (fa) (karg)
• Polish: nosorożec (pl) m
• Portuguese: rinoceronte (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਗੈਂਡਾ m (gaiṇḍā)
• Quechua: sinqawaqra
• Romanian: rinocer (ro) m
• Russian: носоро́г (ru) m (nosoróg)
• Rwanda-Rundi: inkura class 9/10
• Sanskrit: खड्ग (sa) m (khaḍga)
• Santali: ᱜᱚᱱᱰ ᱜᱟᱨᱩᱲ (gônḍ garuṛ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: но̏сорог m

  Roman: nȍsorog (sh) m

• Shona: chipembere class 7
• Slovak: nosorožec (sk) m
• Slovene: nosorog (sl) m
• Somali: wiyil (so) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: nosorogak m

  Upper Sorbian: nosorohač m

• Sotho: tšukulu class 9/10
• Spanish: rinoceronte (es) m
• Sundanese: ᮘᮓᮊ᮪ (badak)
• Swahili: kifaru (sw) class 7/8
• Swedish: noshörning (sv) c
• Tagalog: rinoseronte
• Tajik: каркадан (karkadan), каргадан (kargadan), карг (karg)
• Takwane: ephwete
• Tamil: காண்டாமிருகம் (ta) (kāṇṭāmirukam), மூக்குக்கொம்பன் (ta) (mūkkukkompaṉ), ஒற்றைக்கொம்பன் (ta) (oṟṟaikkompaṉ)
• Tatar: мөгезборын (tt) (mögezborın), кәркедән (kärkedän)
• Telugu: ఖడ్గమృగం (khaḍgamr̥gaṁ)
• Thai: แรด (th) (rɛ̂t), ระมาด (th) (rá-mâat) (elegant)
• Tibetan: བསེ་རུ (bse ru)
• Tigrinya: ሓሪሽ (ḥariš)
• Tombonuo: longgung
• Tooro: enkura class 9
• Tswana: tshukudu class 9
• Turkish: gergedan (tr)
• Turkmen: kerk
• Tuvan: мыйыс-думчук (mıyıs-dumçuk)
• Udmurt: носорог (nosorog)
• Ukrainian: носорі́г m (nosoríh)
• Urdu: گینڈا m (gainḍā)
• Uyghur: كەركىدان (kerkidan)
• Uzbek: karkidon (uz)
• Vietnamese: tê giác (vi) (犀角)
• Volapük: rinoserod (vo)
• Welsh: rhinoseros m
• West Frisian: noashoarn c
• White Hmong: twj kun
• Wolof: wànga-lànga wi
• Xhosa: umkhombe
• Yakut: носорог (nosorog)
• Yiddish: נאָזהאָרן m (nozhorn), איינהאָרן m (eynhorn), רינאָצערוס (rinotserus)
• Yoruba: agbanréré
• Zulu: ubhejane (zu) class 1a/2a (black), umkhombo (zu) class 3/4 (white), umduzu class 3/4 (white)

See also

• abada
• crash

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ῥῑνόκερως (rhīnókerōs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /riːˈno.ke.roːs/, [riːˈnɔkɛroːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /riˈno.t͡ʃe.ros/, [riˈnɔːt͡ʃeros]

Noun

rhīnocerōs m (genitive rhīnocerōtis); third declension

1. A rhinoceros
2. A vessel made of a rhinoceros's horn
3. A nickname for someone with a long nose.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rhīnocerōs	rhīnocerōtēs
Genitive	rhīnocerōtis	rhīnocerōtum
Dative	rhīnocerōtī	rhīnocerōtibus
Accusative	rhīnocerōta rhīnocerōtem	rhīnocerōtas rhīnocerōtēs
Ablative	rhīnocerōte	rhīnocerōtibus
Vocative	rhīnocerōs	rhīnocerōtēs

References

• rhinoceros in Karl Ernst Georges, Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch
• “rhinoceros”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rhinoceros”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rhinoceros in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.