reptile
/ˈɹeptaɪl/REP-tyl
/ˈɹɛptaɪl/REP-tyl
Meaninga creeper
Common meaning: a cold-blooded scaled animal
- reptto creep, crawlLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1570 · scan
- ileadjective ending: relating to
Journey through time
- Aryan root · reconstructed√SARP‘slip along, glide, creep’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 388, p. 744 · scan
- Latinrēpō, -ere‘to creep, crawl’
- Frenchrep
- Englishreptile‘a cold-blooded scaled animal’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Latin rēpō ‘to creep, crawl’.
Roots
- rēpō, -ere Latin “to creep, crawl”
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