archeopteryx

archeopteryx

See also: archaeopteryx, Archaeopteryx, and archæoptéryx

English

a reconstruction of an archeopteryx

Alternative forms

• archaeopteryx, archaiopteryx, archæopteryx

Etymology

English archaeo- (“ancient”, “primitive”) (from Ancient Greek ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos)) + English -o- + Ancient Greek πτέρυξ (ptérux, “wing”, “bird”)[1]

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: äkē.ŏpʹtərĭks, IPA^(key): /ɑɹkiˈɒptəɹɪks/ (US), IPA^(key): /ɑːkiːˈɒptəɹɪks/,[1]

• Audio (Mid-Atlantic)

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Noun

archeopteryx (plural archeopteryxes)

1. A specimen of the species Archaeopteryx lithographica, being the earliest and most primitive known bird, representing a transition in the evolution of dinosaurs to birds.
   • 1935, Zoological Society of London, Proceedings, page 758:

     Since Pterosaurians are triassic and the Archæopteryges jurassic we are justified in regarding the actual chronology of external integument in the geological strata as : first, scale ; second, hair ; and third, feather. This inspires us to make a wider appeal to geology in order to have a comprehensive sketch of the avian sequence.

Translations

ancient bird

Breton: arkaeopteryks Catalan: arqueòpterix Chinese: Mandarin: 始祖鳥／始祖鸟 (zh) (shǐzǔniǎo) Czech: archeopteryx (cs) Danish: archaeopteryx, archæopteryx Dutch: archaeopteryx Esperanto: arkeopterigo Finnish: archaeopteryx French: archéoptéryx (fr) m German: Urvogel m, Archäopteryx m, Archaeopteryx (de) m Hindi: आद्यपक्षी (ādyapakṣī) Hungarian: archaeopteryx Icelandic: öglir m Italian: archeotterige m Japanese: 始祖鳥 (ja) (しそちょう, shisochō) Latvian: arheopterikss Lithuanian: archeopteriksas Norwegian: Bokmål: urfugl m, archaeopteryx Nynorsk: urfugl m, archaeopteryx Polish: archaeopteryx Portuguese: arqueoptérix m or f Romanian: arheopterix (ro) m Russian: археопте́рикс (ru) m (arxeoptériks) Slovak: archaeopteryx Slovene: praptič, arheópteriks Spanish: archaeopteryx, arqueoptérix Swedish: archaeopteryx Turkish: archaeopteryx (tr) Volapük: (foreign term) el Archaeopteryx, (foreign term) elaf Archaeopteryx, ruböd

References

• archeopteryx on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Archaeopteryx on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Archaeopteryx on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• archeopteryx at OneLook Dictionary Search
• archeopteryx, archaeopteryx at Google Ngram Viewer

1. “‖archæopteryx” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈarxɛoptɛrɪks]

Noun

archeopteryx m

1. archeopteryx

Related terms

• See archón

Further reading

• archeopteryx in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• archeopteryx in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989