Re: Italian etymological question
| From: | Jonathan Chang <zhang2323@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 31, 2000, 2:42 |
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In a message dated 2000:08:30 7:09:27 PM, hmiller@IO.COM writes:
>On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 23:55:49 EDT, Jonathan Chang <Zhang2323@...> wrote:
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>> Italian for "sloth" (the Amazonian animal) is _bradipo_ (correct?)
>>I was just curious what is the etymology of this word?
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>The scientific name of the sloth family is Bradypodidae, from Greek roots
>meaning "slow foot".
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Nice, finally language(s) that don't "slander" the poor animal...
::big grin::
czHANg
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