Appendix:Animal adjectives deriving from Latin and Ancient Greek
Appearance
A
[edit]Animal | Latin | Ancient Greek |
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ant | formic, formicine | |
ape | simian | |
ass | asinine |
B
[edit]Animal | Latin | Ancient Greek |
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badger | meline | |
bear | ursine | arctic |
beaver | castorine | |
bee | apine | |
bird | avian, avine | ornithic |
buffalo | bubaline | |
butterfly | papilionaceous | lepidopterous |
C
[edit]Animal | Latin | Ancient Greek |
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camel | cameline | |
capuchin monkey | cebine | cebine |
carp | cyprine | |
cat | feline | |
chicken | galline | |
civet | viverrine | |
cod | gadine | |
cow | bovine, vaccine | |
crab | cancrine | |
crane | gruine | |
crocodile | crocodilian, crocodiline | |
crow | corvine |
D
[edit]Animal | Latin | Ancient Greek |
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deer | cervine | |
dog | canine | cynic |
dove | columbine | |
duck | anatine |
E
[edit]Animal | Latin | Ancient Greek |
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eagle | aquiline | aetic |
earthworm | lumbricine | |
elephant | elephantine | |
elk | alcine |
F
[edit]Animal | Latin | Ancient Greek |
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fish | piscine | ichthyic |
flea | pulicine | |
fly | muscine | |
fox | vulpine | |
frog | ranine |
G
[edit]Animal | Latin | Ancient Greek |
---|---|---|
giraffe | giraffine | |
goat | caprine, hircine | tragine |
H
[edit]Animal | Latin | Ancient Greek |
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hare | leporine | |
hawk | accipitrine | |
hippopotamus | hippopotamic | |
horse | equine, caballine | hippic |
human | human, hominine | anthropic |
hyena | hyenic | |
hyrax | hyracine | hyracine |
I
[edit]Animal | Latin | Ancient Greek |
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J
[edit]Animal | Latin | Ancient Greek |
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K
[edit]Animal | Latin | Ancient Greek |
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L
[edit]Animal | Latin | Ancient Greek |
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lion | leonine | |
louse | pediculine |
M
[edit]Animal | Latin | Ancient Greek |
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mouse | murine |
N
[edit]Animal | Latin | Ancient Greek |
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O
[edit]Animal | Latin | Ancient Greek |
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otter | lutrine | |
owl | strigine | strigine |
ox | bovine, vaccine, taurine |
P
[edit]Animal | Latin | Ancient Greek |
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panther | pantherine | pantherine |
parrot | psittacine | |
pig | porcine, suine |
Q
[edit]Animal | Latin | Ancient Greek |
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R
[edit]Animal | Latin | Ancient Greek |
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S
[edit]Animal | Latin | Ancient Greek |
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T
[edit]U
[edit]V
[edit]W
[edit]Animal | Latin | Ancient Greek |
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wolf | lupine |