rhinoceros Latin · revision 4361

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Lucilius|origins=grc ῥινόκερως}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [rʰiːˈnɔ.kɛ.roːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [riˈnɔː.t͡ʃe.ros]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''rhīnocerōs''' ''m'' (genitive rhīnocerōtis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|ῥινόκερως|tr=rhinókerōs|t=rhinoceros]],^(Saalfeld 1874)^(Wiktionary) from [[m|grc|ῥίς|tr=rhís|t=nose]] and [[m|grc|κέρας|tr=kéras|t=horn]].^(Wiktionary) Lucilius writes [[m|la|rinoceros]] and [[m|la|rinocerus]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lucilius has the forms ''rinoceros'' and ''rinocerus''.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Lucilius c. 180–102 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was the African or Indian rhinoceros, shown in Martial's shows and described by Pliny, Curtius and Suetonius.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) By metonymy it was an oil flask of rhinoceros horn, as in Martial and Juvenal.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Martial says that to have a rhinoceros's nose means to be sharp-witted.^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ The Vulgate has the horns of the rhinoceros in Deuteronomy, and medieval writers took it for a one-horned beast, the unicorn.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(DMLBS) English ''rhinoceros'' is recorded around 1300.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius uses the form ''rinoceros''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder describes the rhinoceros.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 40–102/103 AD – Martial uses it of a flask.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1300 – English ''rhinoceros'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|rhinoceros]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A flask of rhinoceros horn.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A one-horned beast, a [[m|en|unicorn]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|rhinoceros]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}