reptile

See also: Reptile, réptile, and rep-tile

EnglishEdit

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reptile

EtymologyEdit

From 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).

Picture dictionary

reptile

alligator

crocodile

chameleon

dinosaur

lizard

snake

turtle

PronunciationEdit

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹɪpˈtaɪl/
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(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛp.taɪl/
Rhymes: -aɪl

NounEdit

reptile (plural reptiles)

A cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia; an amniote that is neither a synapsid nor a bird.
(figuratively) A mean or grovelling person.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
  This work may, indeed, be considered as a great creation of our own; and for a little reptile of a critic to presume to find fault with any of its parts, without knowing the manner in which the whole is connected, and before he comes to the final catastrophe, is a most presumptuous absurdity.
- 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
  "That reptile," whispered Pott, catching Mr. Pickwick by the arm, and pointing towards the stranger. "That reptile — Slurk, of the Independent!"
- 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter XXVII, in Wuthering Heights, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:
  […] If I pitied you for crying and looking so very frightened, you should spurn such pity. Ellen, tell him how disgraceful this conduct is. Rise, and don’t degrade yourself into an abject reptile—don’t!

HyponymsEdit

See also Thesaurus:reptile

Related termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

a cold-blooded vertebrate

Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
Afrikaans: reptiel (af)
Albanian: rrëshqanor (sq) m
Arabic: زَحَّافَة‎ f (zaḥḥāfa)
Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: սողուն (hy) (sołun), զեռուն (hy) (zeṙun)
Asturian: reptil (ast)
Avar: please add this translation if you can
Azerbaijani: sürünən
Bashkir: please add this translation if you can
Basque: narrasti
Belarusian: рэпты́лія f (reptýlija), паўзу́н (be) m (paŭzún), гад m (had) (colloquial: includes reptiles, amphibians, molluscs, etc.)
Bengali: সরীসৃপ (bn) (sorīsr̥p), রেপ্তাইল (reptail)
Bishnupriya Manipuri: please add this translation if you can
Breton: stlejvil (br)
Bulgarian: влечу́го (bg) n (vlečúgo)
Burmese: တွားသွားကောင် (my) (twa:swa:kaung)
Catalan: rèptil (ca) m
Chechen: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Cantonese: 爬蟲／爬虫 (paa⁴ cung⁴), 爬蟲類／爬虫类 (paa⁴ cung⁴ leoi⁶)

Mandarin: 爬蟲／爬虫 (zh) (páchóng), 爬行類／爬行类 (zh) (páxínglèi), 爬蟲類／爬虫类 (zh) (páchónglèi)

Min Nan: 爬蟲／爬虫 (pâ-thiông)
Corsican: rettile m
Crimean Tatar: sürüngen
Czech: plaz (cs) m
Danish: krybdyr (da) n, reptil n
Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: reptiel (nl) n
Esperanto: reptilio
Estonian: roomaja, reptiil
Faroese: skriðdýr, skriðdjór n, reptilla f
Finnish: matelija (fi), reptiili (informal)
French: reptile (fr) m
Galician: réptil (gl)
Georgian: ქვეწარმავალი (kvec̣armavali)
German: Kriechtier (de) n, Reptil (de) n, Wurm (de) m (poetic)
Greek: ερπετό (el) (erpetó)
Ancient: ἑρπετόν n (herpetón)
Hawaiian: moʻo, lepekile
Hebrew: זוֹחֵל‎ m (zoħél)
Hindi: सर्पणशील (sarpaṇśīl), सरीसृप (hi) (sarīsŕp)
Hungarian: hüllő (hu)
Icelandic: skriðdýr (is) n, réptíll m
Ido: reptero (io)
Indonesian: reptil (id), binatang melata
Interlingua: reptile
Irish: reiptíl f
Italian: reptilia f, rettile (it) m
Japanese: 爬虫 (はちゅう, hachū), 爬虫類 (ja) (はちゅうるい, hachūrui)
Javanese: reptil
Kannada: ಸರೀಸೃಪ (kn) (sarīsṛpa)
Kazakh: бауырымен жорғалаушы (bauyrymen jorğalauşy)
Khmer: ឧរង្គសត្វ (ʼurɑngkĕəʼsat), ល្មូន (lmuun)
Korean: 파충류(爬蟲類) (ko) (pachungnyu), 파충(爬蟲) (pachung)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: xişok (ku), reptîl
Kyrgyz: рептилия (reptiliya)
Lao: ເລືອຄານ (lư̄a khān)
Latin: reptilia (la)
Latvian: rāpulis m, reptils m
Limburgish: reptiele
Lithuanian: roplys m, reptilas m
Low German:
German Low German: Krüüpdeer, Kruupdeer
Luxembourgish: Reptil n
Macedonian: влекач m (vlekač)
Malay: reptilia, reptil, binatang reptilia, haiwan reptilia
Malayalam: ഉരഗം (ml) (uragaṃ)
Maltese: rettili m
Marathi: सरपटणारा प्राणी (mr) (sarpaṭṇārā prāṇī), सरीसृप (mr) (sarīsrup)
Mon: မၟာ (mnw)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: хэвлээр явагч (xevleer javagč)
Navajo: naaldlooshii dadichʼízhii
Neapolitan: rettile m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: krypdyr (no) n, reptil (no) n

Nynorsk: krypdyr n, reptil n
Occitan: reptilia
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: гадъ m (gadŭ)
Old East Slavic: гадъ m (gadŭ) (includes reptiles, amphibians, molluscs, etc.)
Old Javanese: sarisepa
Ossetian: хилӕгой (xilægoj)
Persian: خزنده‎ (fa) (xazande)
Polish: gad (pl) m
Portuguese: réptil (pt) m
Quechua: suchuq
Romanian: reptilă (ro) f
Romansch: reptil m
Russian: пресмыка́ющееся (ru) n (presmykájuščejesja), репти́лия (ru) f (reptílija), гад (ru) m (gad) (colloquial: includes reptiles, amphibians, molluscs, etc.)
Samogitian: ruoplē m, reptils m
Sanskrit: सरीसृप (sa) (sarīsṛpa)
Scottish Gaelic: snàigean m, pèist f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: гма̑з m, гми̏завац m, рѐптӣл m

Roman: gmȃz (sh) m, gmȉzavac (sh) m, rèptīl m
Sicilian: rettili (scn) m
Slovak: plaz m
Slovene: plazílec (sl) m
Spanish: reptil (es) m
Sundanese: réptil
Swahili: reptaili
Swedish: kräldjur (sv) n, reptil (sv) c
Tagalog: bayabag
Tajik: рептилия (reptiliya)
Tamil: ஊர்வன (ta) (ūrvaṉa)
Tatar: сөйрәлүче (tt) (söyrälüçe)
Telugu: సరీసృపం (te) (sarīsr̥paṁ)
Thai: สัตว์เลื้อยคลาน (th) (sàt-lʉ́ai-klaan)
Turkish: sürüngen (tr)
Turkmen: süýreniji
Tuvan: соястаарлар (soyastaarlar)
Ukrainian: плазу́н m (plazún), репти́лія f (reptýlija), гад m (had) (colloquial: includes reptiles, amphibians, molluscs, etc.)
Upper Sorbian: łažaki
Uyghur: ئۆمىلىگۈچى ھايۋان‎ (ömiligüchi haywan)
Uzbek: reptiliya
Vietnamese: động vật bò sát, loài bò sát (vi)
Volapük: räptul (vo)
Welsh: ymlusgiad (cy)
West Frisian: reptyl
Yiddish: רעפּטיליע‎ f (reptilye), שרץ‎ m (sherets)
Zazaki: xuzande c, reptiliya f, kasnend c, bulinger c

AdjectiveEdit

reptile (not comparable)

Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.
Grovelling; low; vulgar.
a reptile race or crew reptile vices
- 1795–1797, Edmund Burke, “(please specify |letter=1 to 4)”, in [Letters on a Regicide Peace], London: [Rivington]:
  There is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution, but of fear.
- 1800, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Christabel. Part II.”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, →OCLC, page 34:
  My herald shall appoint a week, / And let the recreant traitors seek / My tournay court—that there and then / I may dislodge their reptile souls / From the bodies and forms of men!