"Achelousaurus" meaning in All languages combined

See Achelousaurus on Wiktionary

Proper name [Translingual]

Forms: †Achelousaurus [canonical, masculine]
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἀχελῷος (Akhelôios, “Achelous, a Greek shapeshifting deity”) + -saurus, named by Scott Sampson in 1994 in reference to its transitional combination of nasal boss and frill horns, reminiscent of a myth where Achelous transformed into a bull and had his horn broken off by Hercules. Etymology templates: {{der|mul|grc|Ἀχελῷος||Achelous, a Greek shapeshifting deity}} Ancient Greek Ἀχελῷος (Akhelôios, “Achelous, a Greek shapeshifting deity”), {{suffix|mul||saurus}} + -saurus Head templates: {{head|mul|proper noun|||g=m|g2=|head=Achelousaurus|nogendercat=1}} Achelousaurus m
  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Ceratopsidae – a ceratopsian dinosaur from the Cretaceous of North America. Wikipedia link: Scott Sampson, en:Achelousaurus Categories (lifeform): Dinosaurs
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mul",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "Ἀχελῷος",
        "4": "",
        "5": "Achelous, a Greek shapeshifting deity"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek Ἀχελῷος (Akhelôios, “Achelous, a Greek shapeshifting deity”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mul",
        "2": "",
        "3": "saurus"
      },
      "expansion": "+ -saurus",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Ancient Greek Ἀχελῷος (Akhelôios, “Achelous, a Greek shapeshifting deity”) + -saurus, named by Scott Sampson in 1994 in reference to its transitional combination of nasal boss and frill horns, reminiscent of a myth where Achelous transformed into a bull and had his horn broken off by Hercules.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "†Achelousaurus",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mul",
        "2": "proper noun",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "g": "m",
        "g2": "",
        "head": "Achelousaurus",
        "nogendercat": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Achelousaurus m",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Translingual",
  "lang_code": "mul",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Translingual entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Translingual terms suffixed with -saurus",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "mul",
          "name": "Dinosaurs",
          "orig": "mul:Dinosaurs",
          "parents": [
            "Reptiles",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Chordates",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "mul",
          "name": "Taxonomic names (genus)",
          "orig": "mul:Taxonomic names (genus)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A taxonomic genus within the family Ceratopsidae – a ceratopsian dinosaur from the Cretaceous of North America."
      ],
      "id": "en-Achelousaurus-mul-name-P5fr4QJX",
      "links": [
        [
          "genus",
          "genus#English"
        ],
        [
          "family",
          "family#English"
        ],
        [
          "Ceratopsidae",
          "Ceratopsidae#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "ceratopsian",
          "ceratopsian"
        ],
        [
          "dinosaur",
          "dinosaur"
        ],
        [
          "Cretaceous",
          "Cretaceous"
        ],
        [
          "North America",
          "North America"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Scott Sampson",
        "en:Achelousaurus"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Achelousaurus"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mul",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "Ἀχελῷος",
        "4": "",
        "5": "Achelous, a Greek shapeshifting deity"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek Ἀχελῷος (Akhelôios, “Achelous, a Greek shapeshifting deity”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mul",
        "2": "",
        "3": "saurus"
      },
      "expansion": "+ -saurus",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Ancient Greek Ἀχελῷος (Akhelôios, “Achelous, a Greek shapeshifting deity”) + -saurus, named by Scott Sampson in 1994 in reference to its transitional combination of nasal boss and frill horns, reminiscent of a myth where Achelous transformed into a bull and had his horn broken off by Hercules.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "†Achelousaurus",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mul",
        "2": "proper noun",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "g": "m",
        "g2": "",
        "head": "Achelousaurus",
        "nogendercat": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Achelousaurus m",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Translingual",
  "lang_code": "mul",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Translingual entries with incorrect language header",
        "Translingual lemmas",
        "Translingual proper nouns",
        "Translingual terms derived from Ancient Greek",
        "Translingual terms suffixed with -saurus",
        "mul:Dinosaurs",
        "mul:Taxonomic names (genus)"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A taxonomic genus within the family Ceratopsidae – a ceratopsian dinosaur from the Cretaceous of North America."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "genus",
          "genus#English"
        ],
        [
          "family",
          "family#English"
        ],
        [
          "Ceratopsidae",
          "Ceratopsidae#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "ceratopsian",
          "ceratopsian"
        ],
        [
          "dinosaur",
          "dinosaur"
        ],
        [
          "Cretaceous",
          "Cretaceous"
        ],
        [
          "North America",
          "North America"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Scott Sampson",
        "en:Achelousaurus"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Achelousaurus"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Achelousaurus meaning in All languages combined (1.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-21 using wiktextract (7c21d10 and f2e72e5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.