rhinoceros

• n. [脊椎動物] サイ

rhin、鼻、-cer、角、語源は角と同じ。 角のような鼻から名付けられた。

rhinoceros

rhinoceros: [13] Rhinoceros means literally ‘nose-horn’. The term was coined in Greek from rhīno-, the stem form of rhīs ‘nose’, and kéras ‘horn’ (a distant relative of English horn). Greek rhīnókerōs reached English via Latin rhīnocerōs. The abbreviated form rhino is first recorded in the 1880s.
=> antirrhinum, horn, keratin

rhinoceros (n.)

c. 1300, from Latin rhinoceros, from Greek rhinokeros, literally "nose-horned," from rhinos "nose" (a word of unknown origin) + keras "horn" (see kerato-). Related: Rhinocerotic.

What is the plural of rhinoceros? ... Well, Liddell and Scott seem to authorize 'rhinocerotes,' which is pedantic, but 'rhinoceroses' is not euphonious. [Sir Charles Eliot, "The East Africa Protectorate," 1905]

1. Carruthers had been gored by a rhinoceros .

カラサーズはサイに頭を負傷した。

2.A rhinoceros lumbered towards them.

サイが彼らに向かって大きく歩いてきた。

3.Prehistoric in appearance，the rhinoceros is indeed an ancient species.

外観的には先史動物のようなインドサイは確かに古い種である。

4.The game wardens tranquillized the rhinoceros with a drugged dart.

獲物保護区管理者が麻酔注射器でサイを静めた。

5.He called me a rhinoceros three years ago.

3年前にサイをののしった。