Re: Italian etymological question
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 31, 2000, 1:33 |
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On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 23:55:49 EDT, Jonathan Chang <Zhang2323@...> wrote:
> Italian for "sloth" (the Amazonian animal) is _bradipo_ (correct?)
>I was just curious what is the etymology of this word?
The scientific name of the sloth family is Bradypodidae, from Greek roots
meaning "slow foot".
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