dino-
English
prefix
Definitions
- (biology) Used for presumably fearfully large or dangerous animals or animal parts.
Etymology
Derived from Ancient Greek δεινός (terrible, mighty, awful, fearfully great, scary, awesome, powerful).
Origin
Ancient Greek
δεινός
Gloss
terrible, mighty, awful, fearfully great, scary, awesome, powerful
Concept
Semantic Field
Emotions and values
Ontological Category
Property
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Dinosauria Latin
- dīnosaurus Latin
- Δείναρχος Ancient Greek
- Δεινοκράτης Ancient Greek
- Δεινοσθένης Ancient Greek
- Δεινόλοχος Ancient Greek
- Δεινόστρατος Ancient Greek
- δεινός Ancient Greek
- δεινῶς Ancient Greek
- *dweynós Proto-Indo-European
- dinosaur Norwegian Bokmål
- dinosaur Norwegian Nynorsk
- δεινός Greek (modern)