BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-26 months agoThe word Unicorn is uni-corn, as in one corn(horn).message-squaremessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up153arrow-down127file-text
arrow-up126arrow-down1message-squareThe word Unicorn is uni-corn, as in one corn(horn).BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-26 months agomessage-square29fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaredream_weasel@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up12·6 months agoWait until you find out the depth of creativity contained in the naming of the “rhinoceros”.
minus-squareBarqsHasBite@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·6 months 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-26 months 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-up2·6 months 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.
minus-squareඞmir@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months agoIn Dutch they are actually called nosehorns
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!