velociraptor的词源

英文词源

velociraptor (n.)

1924, from Latin velox (genitive velocis) "swift, speedy" (see velocity) + raptor "robber" (see raptor). Fossil remains discovered in 1923 in the red Djadochta sandstone at Shabarakh Usu in Mongolia.

The first (Fig. 1) of the typical megalosaurian type, although of small size, seems to have been an alert, swift-moving carnivorous dinosaur to which the generic name Velociraptor is applied. [Henry Fairfield Osborn, "Three New Therapoda, Protoceratops Zone, Central Mongolia," in "American Museum Novitates," Nov., 7, 1924]

中文词源

velociraptor：疾走龙

veloc-,速度,词源同velocity,-rapt,抓住,词源同rapture，代指猛兽，龙。用于指一种速度迅速的龙。

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velociraptor：疾走龙

veloc-,速度,词源同 velocity,-rapt,抓住，词源同 rapture,代指猛兽，龙。用于指一种速度迅速