cervine
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin cervīnus, from cervus (“deer”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsəːvʌɪn/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
[edit]cervine (not comparable)
- Pertaining to a deer; deer-like.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 495:
- To which she replied sweetly, shaking that fine cervine head: ‘At any moment tell yourself that things are much better that they have any right to be.’
Noun
[edit]cervine (plural cervines)
- A deer of the subfamily Cervinae; an Old World deer.
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 106:
- The cervines are arguably Europe's greatest mammalian success story: the earliest type, Cervavitus, first appeared about 10 million years ago—in Europe.
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[edit]Italian
[edit]Adjective
[edit]cervine
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kerˈu̯iː.ne/, [kɛrˈu̯iːnɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃerˈvi.ne/, [t͡ʃerˈviːne]
Adjective
[edit]cervīne
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