reptile

English

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Reptile

Etymology

Middle English reptil, from Old French reptile, from Late Latin rēptile, neuter of reptilis (“creeping”), from Latin rēpō (“to creep”), from Proto-Indo-European *rep- (“to creep, slink”) (Pokorny; Watkins, 1969).

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Pronunciation

(RP) IPA: /ɹɪpˈtaɪl/
(GenAm) IPA: /ˈɹɛp.taɪl/
Rhymes: -aɪl

Noun

reptile (plural reptiles)

A cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia.
(figuratively) A mean or grovelling person.
- Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
  "That reptile," whispered Pott, catching Mr. Pickwick by the arm, and pointing towards the stranger. "That reptile — Slurk, of the Independent!"

Hyponyms

See also Wikisaurus:reptile

Related terms

mammal-like reptile
Reptilia
reptilian
reptilianness
reptiliology
reptiliologist
reptiliologists [1]

Translations

a cold-blooded vertebrate

Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
Afrikaans: reptiel (af)
Albanian: rrëshqanor (sq)
Arabic: زَحّافَة (ar) (zaḥḥāfa) f
Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: սողուն (hy) (soġun), զեռուն (hy) (zeṙun)
Asturian: reptil
Avar: please add this translation if you can
Azeri: sürünən (az) (pl: sürünənlər (az))
Bashkir: please add this translation if you can
Basque: narrasti (eu)
Belarusian: рэптылія (be) (reptýlija) f, паўзун (be) (paŭzún) m
Bengali: সরীসৃপ (bn) (sôrisrip)
Bishnupriya Manipuri: please add this translation if you can
Breton: stlejvil
Bulgarian: влечуго (bg) (vlečúgo) n
Burmese: တွားသွားကောင် (my) (twa:thwa:kaung)
Catalan: rèptil (ca) m
Chechen: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Cantonese: 爬蟲類, 爬虫类 (paa4 cung4 leoi6)

Mandarin: 爬蟲 (cmn), 爬虫 (cmn) (páchóng), 爬蟲類 (cmn), 爬虫类 (cmn) (páchónglèi)

Min Nan: 爬蟲 (nan), 爬虫 (nan) (pâ-thiông)
Corsican: please add this translation if you can
Crimean Tatar: sürüngen
Czech: plaz (cs) m
Danish: krybdyr (da)
Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: reptiel (nl) n
Esperanto: reptilioj (eo)
Estonian: roomajad (et)
Faroese: skriðdýr (fo), skriðdjór (fo) n
Finnish: matelija (fi)
French: reptile (fr) m
Friulian: please add this translation if you can
Galician: réptil (gl)
Georgian: ქვეწარმავალი (de) (k'vec'armavali)
German: Kriechtier (de) n, Reptil (de) n, Wurm (de) m (poetic)
Greek: ερπετό (el) (erpetó)
Ancient: ἑρπετόν (erpetón) n
Hawaiian: moʻo
Hebrew: זוֹחֵל (he) (zoħél) m
Hindi: सर्पणशील (hi) (sarpanśil), सरीसृप (hi) (sarīsṛap)
Hungarian: hüllő (hu)
Icelandic: skriðdýr (is),
Ido: reptero (io)
Indonesian: reptil (id)
Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
Interlingue: please add this translation if you can
Irish: reiptíl (ga) f
Italian: reptilia (it) f, rettile (it) m
Japanese: 爬虫 (ja) (はちゅう, hachū), 爬虫類 (ja) (はちゅうるい, hachūrui)
Javanese: please add this translation if you can
Kazakh: бауырымен жорғалаушылар (kk) (bawırımen jorğalawşılar)
Khmer: ល្មូន (km) (lmoon), ឧរង្គសត្វ (km) (u rong sat)
Korean: 파충류 (ko) (pachungnyu) (爬蟲類 (ko)), 파충 (ko) (pachung) (爬蟲 (ko))
Kurdish: please add this translation if you can

Lao: ເລືອຄານ (lo) (lya-khaan)
Latin: reptilia (la)
Latvian: rāpuļi (lv)
Limburgish: reptiele (li)
Lithuanian: roplys (lt) m
Low German:
German Low German: Krüüpdeer, Kruupdeer
Luxembourgish: Reptil (lb) n
Macedonian: влекач (mk) (vlékač) m
Malay: reptilia (ms), binatang reptilia (ms), haiwan reptilia (ms)
Malayalam: ഉരഗം (ml)
Maltese: please add this translation if you can
Marathi: सर्प्ट्णारा प्रािण (mr)
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Navajo: naaldlooshii dadichʼízhii
Norwegian: reptil (no) n, krypdyr (no)
Norwegian Nynorsk: krypdyr (nn)
Novial: reptere
Occitan: reptilia (oc)
Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
Persian: خزنده (fa) (xazande)
Polish: gad (pl) m
Portuguese: réptil (pt) m
Quechua: suchuq (qu)
Romanian: reptilă (ro)
Romansch: reptil (rm) m
Russian: пресмыкающееся (ru) (presmykájuščejesja) n, рептилия (ru) (reptílija) f, гад (ru) (gad) m (colloquial: includes reptiles, amphibians, molluscs, etc.)
Samogitian: ruoplē
Scottish Gaelic: snàigean (gd) m, pèist (gd) f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: гмаз (sh) m, гмизавац (sh) m, рептил (sh) m

Roman: gmaz (sh) m, gmizavac (sh) m, reptil (sh) m
Sicilian: rettili (scn) m
Slovak: plaz (sk) m
Slovene: plazílec (sl) m
Spanish: reptil (es) m
Sundanese: réptil (su)
Swahili: please add this translation if you can
Swedish: reptil (sv) c
Tagalog: please add this translation if you can
Tajik: рептилия (tg) (reptiliya)
Tamil: ஊர்வன (ta) (urvana)
Telugu: సరీసృపం (te) (sareesrupam)
Thai: สัตว์เลื้อยคลาน (th) (sàt léuay klaan)
Turkish: sürüngen (tr)
Tuvan: соястаарлар (sojastaarlar)
Ukrainian: плазун (uk) (plazún) m, рептилія (uk) (reptýlija) f
Upper Sorbian: łažaki (hsb)
Vietnamese: động vật bò sát (vi)
Volapük: (♂♀) räptul (vo), (♂) hiräptul (vo), (♀) jiräptul (vo), (♂♀ offspring) räptulül (vo), (♂ offspring) hiräptulül (vo), (♀ offspring) jiräptulül (vo)
Welsh: ymlusgiad (cy)
West Frisian: reptyl (fy)
Yiddish: רעפּטיליע (yi) (reptilye, reptilje) f, רעפּטיליעס (yi) (reptilyen, reptiljen) f pl, שרץ (yi) (sherets, scherez) m, שרצים (yi) (shrotsim, schrozim) m pl