thylacine

thylacine

English

Two thylacines, c. 1904

Etymology

From translingual Thylacinus; from Ancient Greek θύλακος (thúlakos, “pouch, sack”) + Latin -inus (-ine).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθailəsiːn/

Noun

thylacine (plural thylacines)

1. The carnivorous marsupial Thylacinus cynocephalus which was native to Tasmania, now extinct.
   • 2020, David Farrier, “The Moment Under the Moment”, in Footprints, 4th Estate, →ISBN:

     […] high up on an overhanging rock, perhaps twenty feet above the ground, a ghostly white thylacine was clearly visible. Thylacines, or Tasmanian tigers, have been extinct on the mainland of Australia for at least two thousand years.

Synonyms

• (carnivorous mammal): Tasmanian tiger, Tasmanian wolf

Translations

extinct carnivorous marsupial

Chinese: Mandarin: 袋狼 (zh) (dàiláng) Czech: vakovlk m Finnish: pussihukka French: thylacine (fr) m German: Beutelwolf m Ingush: цокъабордз (coqʼabordz) Irish: tílicín m Japanese: 袋狼 (フクロオオカミ, fukuroōkami) Navajo: náshdóí bizaʼazis hólóní Polish: wilk workowaty (pl) m Portuguese: tilacino (pt) m, tigre-da-tasmânia m, lobo-da-tasmânia m Russian: су́мчатый волк m (súmčatyj volk) Spanish: tilacino (es) m, lobo de Tasmania m, tigre de Tasmania Swedish: pungvarg (sv) c, tasmansk tiger c, tasmansk varg c Vietnamese: chó sói túi, chó sói Tasmania, hổ Tasmania

See also

• sarcophile
• sarcophiline
• Sarcophilus harrisii (Tasmanian devil)

Anagrams

• Telychian

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French

Noun

thylacine m (plural thylacines)

1. thylacine

Further reading

• “thylacine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.