dinosaurio

dinosaurio

1. dinosaur.

Borrowed from English dinosaur, French dinosaure, German Dinosaurier, Italian dinosauro, Russian динозавр (dinozavr), Spanish dinosaurio, with the latter part based on saurio (“saurian”).

• IPA^(key): /di.no.ˈsaw.rio/

dinosaurio (plural dinosaurii)

1. (zoology) dinosaur

• dinosauro (neologism)

Borrowed from New Latin dīnosaurus, from Ancient Greek δεινός (deinós, “terrible, awesome”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”).

• IPA^(key): /dinoˈsauɾjo/ [d̪i.noˈsau̯.ɾjo]
• Rhymes: -auɾjo
• Syllabification: di‧no‧sau‧rio

dinosaurio m (plural dinosaurios)

1. (zoology) dinosaur

   Synonym: (rare) dinosauro

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