mastodont
English
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from French mastodonte.
Pronunciation
Further reading
- “mastodont” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French mastodonte.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌmɑs.toːˈdɔnt/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: mas‧to‧dont
- Rhymes: -ɔnt
Noun
mastodont m (plural mastodonten, diminutive mastodontje n)
- mastodon, mammal of the family Mammutidae, especially of the genus Mammut [from 1807]
- 1807 April 3, “Wetenschappen, letteren en kunsten”, in Koninklijke courant, number 80, page 3:
- Het is deze laatſte bijzonderheid, die uitgedrukt wordt door den geſlachtsnaam van Mastodonten, of dieren met borst-voerende tanden, welken de Heer Cuvier hun gegeven heeft.
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- someone or something of enormous size
Romanian
Etymology
From French mastodonte.
Declension
Declension of mastodont
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) mastodont | mastodontul | (niște) mastodonți | mastodonții |
| genitive/dative | (unui) mastodont | mastodontului | (unor) mastodonți | mastodonților |
| vocative | mastodontule | mastodonților | ||
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mastǒdont/
- Hyphenation: mas‧to‧dont
Declension
Declension of mastodont
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | mastòdont | mastodonti |
| genitive | mastodonta | mastòdonātā |
| dative | mastodontu | mastodontima |
| accusative | mastodonta | mastodonte |
| vocative | mastodonte | mastodonti |
| locative | mastodontu | mastodontima |
| instrumental | mastodontom | mastodontima |
References
- “mastodont” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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