thylacine

English

Two thylacines, c. 1904

Etymology

From translingual Thylacinus; from Ancient Greek θύλακος (thúlakos, “pouch, sack”) + Latin -inus (-ine).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθailəsiːn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

thylacine (plural thylacines)

1. A carnivorous marsupial (†Thylacinus cynocephalus) which was native to Tasmania, now extinct.
   • 2020, David Farrier, “The Moment Under the Moment”, in Footprints, 4th Estate, →ISBN:

     […] high up on an overhanging rock, perhaps twenty feet above the ground, a ghostly white thylacine was clearly visible. Thylacines, or Tasmanian tigers, have been extinct on the mainland of Australia for at least two thousand years.

Synonyms

• (carnivorous mammal): Tasmanian tiger, Tasmanian wolf, Tasmanian hyena, Kaparunina

Translations

extinct carnivorous marsupial

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 袋狼 (zh) (dàiláng)

• Czech: vakovlk m
• Dutch: buidelwolf (nl) m, Tasmaanse tijger m, Tasmaanse buidelwolf m
• Finnish: pussihukka (fi)
• French: thylacine (fr) m
• Georgian: ⴇⴈⴊⴀⴚⴈⴌⴈ sg (tilacini)
• German: Beutelwolf m
• Ingush: цокъабордз (coqʼabordz)
• Irish: tílicín m
• Italian: tilacino m, tigre della Tasmania m, lupo della Tasmania m, lupo marsupiale m, lupo australe m
• Japanese: 袋狼 (フクロオオカミ, fukuroōkami)
• Korean: 틸라신 (tillasin)
• Navajo: náshdóí bizaʼazis hólóní
• Polish: wilk workowaty (pl) m
• Portuguese: tilacino (pt) m, tigre-da-tasmânia m, lobo-da-tasmânia m
• Russian: су́мчатый волк m (súmčatyj volk)
• Spanish: tilacino (es) m, lobo de Tasmania m, tigre de Tasmania
• Swedish: pungvarg (sv) c, tasmansk tiger c, tasmansk varg c
• Vietnamese: chó sói túi, chó sói Tasmania, hổ Tasmania
• Yiddish: טאַש היענע (tash hyene, literally “bag hyena”)

See also

• sarcophile
• sarcophiline
• Sarcophilus harrisii (Tasmanian devil)

Anagrams

• Telychian

French

Noun

thylacine m (plural thylacines)

1. thylacine

Further reading

• “thylacine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.