恐竜

See also: 恐龍 and 恐龙

Japanese
恐竜 (kyōryū): a collection of different dinosaurs.
Kanji in this term
恐 竜
きょう
Grade: S		 りゅう
Grade: S
kan’on goon
Alternative spelling
恐龍 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

Compound of 恐 (kyō, “fearful”) +‎ 竜 (ryū, “dragon”), a calque of New Latin Dinosaurus. Coined by Matajirō Yokoyama (横山又次郎) in 1895.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

恐(きょう)竜(りゅう) • (kyōryū) ←きようりゆう (kyouryuu)?

  1. a dinosaur (animal of the clade Dinosauria)
    • 1939, 小西健二, 天然紀念物調査報告書（南樺太白堊系化石）, 樺太廳, page 80:
      小(こ)形(がた)のトラコドン型(がた)恐(きよう)龍(りゆう)は深(ふか)い寧(むし)ろ廣(ひろ)く短(みじか)い前(ぜん)額(がく)部(ぶ)に於(おい)て多(た)分(ぶん)急(きふ)な頭(とう)骨(こつ)を具(そな)ふ。
      Kogata no torakodon-gata kyōryū wa fukai mushiro hiroku mijikai zengakubu ni oite tabun kyū na tōkotsu o sonau.
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See also

References
  1. “日本で 恐竜化石の発見される前”, in 恐竜博物館ニュース [Dinosaur Museum News]‎ (in Japanese), number 27, Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, 2009 September 15, page 5: “第4回卒業生で、1889年に古生物学担当教授となった横山又次郎は、Dinosaurを初めて恐竜と和訳しましたが、彼の編纂した「化石学教科書中巻」（1895）には”
  2. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  3. Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
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