krokodilo

Ultimately from Latin crocodīlus.

• IPA^(key): /krokodilo/ [kro.ko.ð̞i.lo]

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• Rhymes: -ilo, -o
• Hyphenation: kro‧ko‧di‧lo

krokodilo anim

1. crocodile
   • 2005, Anjel Rekalde, La República del Bidasoa, page 75:

     Tipo bat joan da psikiatrarengana eta sekulako tema zeukan sartuta buruan bere ohe azpian krokodilo bat sartuta zeukala.

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   • 2007, Mariasun Landa, Krokodiloa ohe azpian‎^[1]:
   • 2014, Txani Rodríguez, Nacho Fernández, Iparraldeko basamortuak, page 46:

     KROKODILOA!

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• “krokodilo”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “krokodilo”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

• IPA^(key): /krokoˈdilo/

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• Rhymes: -ilo
• Syllabification: kro‧ko‧di‧lo

krokodilo (accusative singular krokodilon, plural krokodiloj, accusative plural krokodilojn)

1. crocodile
   • 1931 December, Raymond Schwartz, “Optimismo”, in La stranga butiko, Tyresö: Inko, published 2000, →ISBN, page 7:

     Nu, — mi estas krokodilo
     Ie ajn ĉe granda Nilo

     Well, — I am a crocodile
     Anywhere in a grand Nile

• reptilio (“reptile”)

• virkrokodilo (“male crocodile, crocodile bull”)
• krokodilido (“young crocodile, crocodile hatchling”)
• krokodiliĉo (“male crocodile, crocodile bull”) (neologism)
• krokodilino (“female crocodile, crocodile cow”)

• krokodilaro (“bask of crocodiles”)

• krokodila (“crocodilian”)
• krokodili (“to speak a language other than Esperanto”)

Borrowed from Esperanto krokodilo, from English crocodile, French crocodile, German Krokodil, Italian coccodrillo, Spanish cocodrilo, Russian крокодил (krokodil), all ultimately from Latin crocodilus, from Ancient Greek κροκόδειλος (krokódeilos).

krokodilo (plural krokodili)

1. crocodile

krokodilo m

1. genitive singular of krokodilas

• krokodilyo

Borrowed from Spanish crocodilo, a variant of cocodrilo, from Latin crocodīlus, from Ancient Greek κροκόδειλος (krokódeilos). The use of this form was possibly influenced by English crocodile as Spanish cocodrilo was used even in early Spanish texts.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kɾokoˈdilo/ [kɾo.xoˈd̪iː.lo]
• Rhymes: -ilo
• Syllabification: kro‧ko‧di‧lo

krokodilo (Baybayin spelling ᜃ᜔ᜇᜓᜃᜓᜇᜒᜎᜓ)

1. crocodile

   Synonym: buwaya