BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agoThe word Unicorn is uni-corn, as in one corn(horn).message-squaremessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up154arrow-down126file-text
arrow-up128arrow-down1message-squareThe word Unicorn is uni-corn, as in one corn(horn).BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agomessage-square30fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaredream_weasel@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 year agoWait until you find out the depth of creativity contained in the naming of the “rhinoceros”.
minus-squareBarqsHasBite@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·1 year ago The word rhinoceros is derived through Latin from the Ancient Greek: ῥῑνόκερως, which is composed of ῥῑνο- (rhino-, “nose”) and κέρας (keras, “horn”) with a horn on the nose. The name has been in use since the 14th century.[8] Little harder than uni and corn but still good
minus-squareBazoogle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-21 year agoTo be fair, it’s a little easier if you’re in the medical field, because rhino- is actually used as a medical prefix An ear, nose, throat doctor’s full title is actually Otorhinolaryngology
minus-squaredream_weasel@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoMeans you can make up your own animals with horns in silly places and in arbitrary numbering: Tesseracephaceros, for example. I’m no etymologist but I think he’s got four horns on his head.
Wait until you find out the depth of creativity contained in the naming of the “rhinoceros”.
Little harder than uni and corn but still good
To be fair, it’s a little easier if you’re in the medical field, because rhino- is actually used as a medical prefix
An ear, nose, throat doctor’s full title is actually Otorhinolaryngology
Means you can make up your own animals with horns in silly places and in arbitrary numbering:
Tesseracephaceros, for example. I’m no etymologist but I think he’s got four horns on his head.
In Dutch they are actually called nosehorns
And hippopotamus!