Translation
tiger
Word origin
From Latin tigris and Greek tigris, which Greek itself borrowed from an Iranian language. It is often connected to a word meaning 'arrow' or 'sharp', for the animal's speed, though that link is disputed and the trail runs cold east of Greek.
- Origin
- Greek, from an Iranian source
- Root
- tigris
- English cognates
- tiger, tigress
Examples
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The tiger is the biggest cat in the world.
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We saw two tigers at the zoo.
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The tiger hid in the tall grass.
The cat family in Esperanto is built on plain roots rather than compounds: kato, leono, , leopardo. Each is its own word, so there is nothing to derive and nothing to guess.
The female is o, using the -in- suffix, and a cub is o with --. Those two suffixes do the work that English does with separate words, tigress and cub, and they work the same way on every animal you meet.
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