dino

Clipping of dinosaur.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪnoʊ/ (US)
• IPA^(key): /ˈdiːnəʊ/ (UK)

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• Rhymes: -aɪnəʊ, -iːnəʊ

dino (plural dinos)

1. (informal) dinosaur.

• dino juice

• Dion, Indo-, NOID, Odin, do in, doin, doin', indo, nido-, nodi

dino

1. first-person singular present indicative of dinar

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdi.noː/

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• Hyphenation: di‧no
• Rhymes: -inoː

dino m (plural dino's, diminutive dinootje n)

1. (informal) A dino, a dinosaur; archosaur of the super-order Dinosauria. [from late 20th c.]

• dinosauriër (formal)
• dinosaurus

Clipping of dinosaurus

• IPA^(key): /ˈdino/, [ˈdino̞]
• Rhymes: -ino
• Syllabification^(key): di‧no

dino (informal)

1. dino

• “dino”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• nido

From dinosaure.

• IPA^(key): /di.no/

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• Rhymes: -o
• Homophone: dinos

dino m (plural dinos)

1. dino

• dinosaure

dino

1. Romanization of ꦢꦶꦤ

dino (feminine dina, masculine plural dinos, feminine plural dinas)

1. (obsolete or poetic) Alternative form of digno

Shortening of dinossauro (“dinosaur”).

dino m (plural dinos)

1. (familiar) dinosaur (any of various extinct reptiles belonging to the Dinosauria)

   Synonym: dinossauro

dino (feminine dina, masculine plural dinos, feminine plural dinas)

1. Obsolete spelling of digno

• “dino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014