reptile

See also:Reptile,réptile,andrep-tile

English

Etymology

FromMiddle Englishreptil,fromOld Frenchreptile,fromLate Latinrēptile,neuter ofreptilis(“creeping”),fromLatinrēpō(“to creep”),fromProto-Indo-European*rep-(“to creep, slink”)(Pokorny; Watkins, 1969).

Picture dictionary

reptile

alligator

alligator

crocodile

crocodile

chameleon

chameleon

dinosaur

dinosaur

lizard

lizard

snake

snake

turtle

turtle

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/ɹɛpˈtaɪl/

  • Audio(Southern England):

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• (General American)IPA^(key):/ˈɹɛp.taɪl/,/ˈɹɛp.taɪəl/

  • Audio(US):

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• Rhymes:-aɪl

Noun

reptile(pluralreptiles)

1. (strictly)A cold-bloodedvertebrateof theclassReptilia;anamniotethat is neither asynapsidnor abird;excludesamphibians.[from 19th c.]
2. (loosely,historical)A reptile or amphibian.[from 18th c.]

   Synonyms:herptile,herp

3. (figuratively,dated)Amean,grovelling,loathsomeorrepulsiveperson.
   • 1749,Henry Fielding,The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling,volumes(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 littlereptileof 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.

   • 1836March –1837October,Charles Dickens,“(please specify the chapter name)”,inThe Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club,London:Chapman and Hall,[…],published1837,→OCLC:

     "Thatreptile,"whispered Pott, catching Mr. Pickwick by the arm, and pointing towards the stranger." That reptile — Slurk, of the Independent! "

   • 1847December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym;Emily Brontë], chapter XXVII, inWuthering 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 abjectreptile—don’t!

Hypernyms

• (vertebrate of classReptilia):amniote,sauropsid

Hyponyms

• See alsoThesaurus:reptile

Related terms

• mammal-like reptile
• Reptilia
• reptilian
• reptilianness
• reptiloid
• reptilology
• reptilologist
• reptoid
• reptologist

Translations

a cold-blooded vertebrate

• Abkhaz:please add this translation if you can
• Afar:ali
• Afrikaans:reptiel(af)
• Albanian:rrëshqanor(sq)m
• Arabic:زَحَّافَةf(zaḥḥāfa)
• Aragonese:please add this translation if you can
• Armenian:սողուն(hy)(soġun),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:рэпты́ліяf(reptýlija),паўзу́н(be)m(paŭzún),гадm(had)(colloquial: includes reptiles, amphibians, molluscs, etc.)
• Bengali:সরীসৃপ(bn)(śorisrip),রেপ্তাইল(reptail)
• Bishnupriya Manipuri:please add this translation if you can
• Breton:stlejvil(br)m
• 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:Ba trùng／Ba trùng(paa⁴cung⁴),Ba trùng loại／Ba trùng loại(paa⁴cung⁴leoi⁶)

  Hokkien:Ba trùng／Ba trùng(pâ-thiông)

  Mandarin:Ba trùng／Ba trùng(zh)(páchóng),Ba hành loại／Ba hành loại(zh)(páxínglèi),Ba trùng loại／Ba trùng loại(zh)(páchónglèi)

• Corsican:rettilem
• Crimean Tatar:sürüngen
• Czech:plaz(cs)m
• Danish:krybdyr(da)n,reptiln
• Dhivehi:please add this translation if you can
• Dutch:reptiel(nl)n
• Esperanto:reptilio
• Estonian:roomaja,reptiil
• Faroese:skriðdýr,skriðdjórn,reptillaf
• 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:ἑρπετόνn(herpetón)

• Hawaiian:moʻo,lepekile
• Hebrew:זוֹחֵלm(zoħél)
• Hindi:सर्पणशील(sarpaṇśīl),सरीसृप(hi)(sarīsŕp)
• Hungarian:hüllő(hu)
• Icelandic:skriðdýr(is)n,réptíllm
• Ido:reptero(io)
• Indonesian:reptil(id),binatang(id)melata(id)
• Interlingua:reptile
• Irish:reiptílf
• Italian:reptiliaf,rettile(it)m
• Japanese:Ba trùng(はちゅう, hachū),Ba trùng loại(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( ba trùng loại )(ko)(pachungnyu),파충( ba trùng )(pachung)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish:xişok(ku),reptîl

• Kyrgyz:рептилия(reptiliya)
• Lao:ເລືອຄານ(lư̄a khān)
• Latin:reptilia(la)
• Latvian:rāpulism,reptilsm
• Limburgish:reptiele
• Lithuanian:roplysm,reptilasm
• Low German:

  German Low German:Krüüpdeern,Kruupdeern

• Luxembourgish:Reptiln
• Macedonian:влекачm(vlekač),влечугаf(vlečuga)
• Malay:reptilia(ms),reptil,binatang reptilia,haiwan reptilia
• Malayalam:ഉരഗം(ml)(uragaṁ)
• Maltese:rettilim
• Marathi:सरपटणारा प्राणी(sarpaṭṇārā prāṇī),सरीसृप(sarīsŕp)
• Mon:မၟာ(mnw)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic:хэвлээр явагч(xevleer javagč)

• Navajo:naaldlooshii dadichʼízhii
• Neapolitan:rettilem
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:krypdyr(no)n,reptil(no)n

  Nynorsk:krypdyrn,reptiln

• Occitan:reptilia
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic:гадъm(gadŭ)

• Old East Slavic:гадъm(gadŭ)(includes reptiles, amphibians, molluscs, etc.)
• Old English:slincendm
• 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:reptilm
• Russian:пресмыка́ющееся(ru)n(presmykájuščejesja),репти́лия(ru)f(reptílija),гад(ru)m(gad)(colloquial: includes reptiles, amphibians, molluscs, etc.)
• Samogitian:ruoplēm,reptilsm
• Sanskrit:सरीसृप(sa)(sarīsṛpa)
• Scottish Gaelic:snàigeanm,pèistf
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic:гма̑зm,гми̏завацm,рѐптӣлm

  Roman:gmȃz(sh)m,gmȉzavac(sh)m,rèptīlm

• Sicilian:rettili(scn)m
• Slovak:plazm
• 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:плазу́нm(plazún),репти́ліяf(reptýlija),гадm(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)m
• West Frisian:reptyln,krûpdiern
• Yiddish:רעפּטיליעf(reptilye),שרץm(sherets)
• Zazaki:xuzandec,reptiliyaf,kasnendc,bulingerc

Adjective

reptile(notcomparable)

1. Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.
2. Grovelling; low; vulgar.

   areptilerace or crew   reptilevices

   • 1795–1797,Edmund Burke,“(please specify |letter=1 to 4)”,in[Letters on a Regicide Peace],London: [Rivington]:

     There is also a false,reptileprudence, the result not of caution, but of fear.

   • 1800,S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge,“Christabel. Part II.”,inChristabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep,London:[…]John Murray,[…],byWilliam Bulmer and Co.[…],published1816,→OCLC,page34:

     My herald shall appoint a week, / And let the recreant traitors seek / My tournay court—that there and then / I may dislodge theirreptilesouls / From the bodies and forms of men!

Synonyms

• (creeping, crawling):reptilious,creeping,crawling;reptitious(obsolete)
• (contemptible):SeeThesaurus:despicable

See also

• herpetology
• Category:en:Reptilesfor a list of reptiles in English
• reptileon Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Peltier,peitrel,perlite,triple-E

French

Etymology

BorrowedfromLatinrēptilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ʁɛp.til/

• Audio:

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Noun

reptilem(pluralreptiles)

1. reptile

Derived terms

• reptilien

Descendants

• →Romanian:reptilă

Further reading

• “reptile”,inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

Latin

Etymology

Substantivized neuter ofrēptilis(“creeping”),taken from the phraseanimal rēptile.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈreːp.ti.le/,[ˈreːpt̪ɪɫ̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈrep.ti.le/,[ˈrɛpt̪ile]

Noun

rēptilen(genitiverēptilis);third declension

1. (Late Latin)areptile

Declension

Third-declensionnoun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rēptile	rēptilia
Genitive	rēptilis	rēptilium
Dative	rēptilī	rēptilibus
Accusative	rēptile	rēptilia
Ablative	rēptilī	rēptilibus
Vocative	rēptile	rēptilia

Descendants

• →English:reptile
• →French:reptile
• →German:Reptil
• →Norwegian Bokmål:reptil
• →Spanish:reptil
• →Swedish:reptil

References

• rēptilisinGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français,Hachette.
• rēptilisinGeorges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918)Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch,8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• “rēptilis”,inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary,Oxford: Clarendon Press
• R. E. Latham,D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “rēptilis”,inDictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1],London:Oxford University Pressfor theBritish Academy,→ISBN,→OCLC