dino
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdaɪnoʊ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪnəʊ
Derived terms
Catalan
Dutch
Etymology
Likely borrowed from English dino. Equivalent to a clipping of dinosaurus. The term became especially prominent after the release of Jurassic Park in 1993, but predated the film by at least one or two years.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdi.noː/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: di‧no
- Rhymes: -inoː
Noun
dino m (plural dino's, diminutive dinootje n)
- (informal) A dino, a dinosaur; archosaur of the super-order Dinosauria. [from late 20th c.]
Finnish
Etymology
Clipping of dinosaurus
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdino/, [ˈdino̞]
- Rhymes: -ino
- Syllabification(key): di‧no
Declension
| Inflection of dino (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | dino | dinot | |
| genitive | dinon | dinojen | |
| partitive | dinoa | dinoja | |
| illative | dinoon | dinoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | dino | dinot | |
| accusative | nom. | dino | dinot |
| gen. | dinon | ||
| genitive | dinon | dinojen | |
| partitive | dinoa | dinoja | |
| inessive | dinossa | dinoissa | |
| elative | dinosta | dinoista | |
| illative | dinoon | dinoihin | |
| adessive | dinolla | dinoilla | |
| ablative | dinolta | dinoilta | |
| allative | dinolle | dinoille | |
| essive | dinona | dinoina | |
| translative | dinoksi | dinoiksi | |
| instructive | — | dinoin | |
| abessive | dinotta | dinoitta | |
| comitative | — | dinoineen | |
| Possessive forms of dino (type valo) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | dinoni | dinomme |
| 2nd person | dinosi | dinonne |
| 3rd person | dinonsa | |
French
Etymology
From dinosaure.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.no/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -o
- Homophone: dinos
Javanese
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒĩ.nu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒi.no/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈdi.nu/
Etymology 2
Shortening of dinossauro (“dinosaur”).
Noun
dino m (plural dinos)
- (familiar) dinosaur (any of various extinct reptiles belonging to the Dinosauria)
- Synonym: dinossauro
Spanish
Adjective
dino (feminine dina, masculine plural dinos, feminine plural dinas)
- Obsolete spelling of digno
Further reading
- “dino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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