Translation
deer
Word origin
From Latin cervus, 'deer', kept almost intact in Italian cervo and Spanish ciervo. English has the root only in the zoological adjective cervine.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- cervus
- English cognates
- cervine
Examples
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We saw a deer in the forest.
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The deer ran quickly between the trees.
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Deer eat grass and leaves.
Esperanto's c is ts, so the animal is TSER-vo. The female is o and the young a o, the usual -in- and -- machinery; the antlered male needs no special word, vircervo if you must. Unlike English, the plural is regular: .
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