mastodont
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mastodont
English
Noun
mastodont (plural mastodonts)
- Alternative form of mastodon
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from French mastodonte.
Pronunciation
Noun
mastodont m (plural mastodonts)
Further reading
- “mastodont” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French mastodonte.
Pronunciation
Noun
mastodont m (plural mastodonten, diminutive mastodontje n)
- mastodon, mammal of the family Mammutidae, especially of the genus Mammut
- 1807 April 3, “Wetenschappen, letteren en kunsten”, in Koninklijke courant, number 80, page 3:
- Het is deze laatſte bijzonderheid, die uitgedrukt wordt door den geſlachtsnaam van Mastodonten, of dieren met borst-voerende tanden, welken de Heer Cuvier hun gegeven heeft.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- someone or something of enormous size
Polish
Etymology
Internationalism; compare English mastodon, French mastodonte, German Mastodon, ultimately from New Latin mastodon, from Ancient Greek μαστός (mastós) + ὀδούς (odoús).
Pronunciation
Noun
mastodont m animal (related adjective mastodontowy)
- (paleontology) mastodon (any elephant-like mammal of the genus Mammut)
- (figurative) colossus (creature or thing of gigantic size)
- (figurative, humorous) dinosaur (person who has been active longer than their peers, especially an artist)
- (figurative, derogatory) dinosaur (old-fashioned person)
- (figurative, derogatory) something that has an outdated design or organization
Declension
Declension of mastodont
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | mastodont | mastodonty |
| genitive | mastodonta | mastodontów |
| dative | mastodontowi | mastodontom |
| accusative | mastodonta | mastodonty |
| instrumental | mastodontem | mastodontami |
| locative | mastodoncie | mastodontach |
| vocative | mastodoncie | mastodonty |
Further reading
- mastodont in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- mastodont in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French mastodonte.
Noun
mastodont m (plural mastodonți)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | mastodont | mastodontul | mastodonți | mastodonții | |
| genitive-dative | mastodont | mastodontului | mastodonți | mastodonților | |
| vocative | mastodontule | mastodonților | |||
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
mastòdont m (Cyrillic spelling масто̀донт)
Declension
Declension of mastodont
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | mastòdont | mastodonti |
| genitive | mastodonta | mastòdonātā |
| dative | mastodontu | mastodontima |
| accusative | mastodonta | mastodonte |
| vocative | mastodonte | mastodonti |
| locative | mastodontu | mastodontima |
| instrumental | mastodontom | mastodontima |
References
- “mastodont”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
Swedish
Noun
mastodont c
- a mastodon (extinct elephant-like mammal)
- (figuratively) a mastodon, a mammoth (something huge)
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | mastodont | mastodonts |
| definite | mastodonten | mastodontens | |
| plural | indefinite | mastodonter | mastodonters |
| definite | mastodonterna | mastodonternas |
Derived terms
- mastodontfilm (“epic film”)