English
hypsilophodont
Hypsilophodont comes from mul Hypsilophodont.
- mulmodernHypsilophodont
- Englishtodayhypsilophodont
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- mulmodernHypsilophodont
- Englishtodayhypsilophodont
Equivalent to hypsi- + loph- + -odont
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ewps- ‘up, above’
Ancient Greek ῠ̔́ψῐ ‘aloft’
Ancient Greek ὕψος ‘height’
English hypsi-
Every English word from mul Hypsilophodont
Today it means
noun Any of the genus †Hypsilophodon of small ornithopod herbivorous dinosaurs.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / mul Hypsilophodont / hypsilophodont