dino

Clipping of dinosaur.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪnoʊ/ (US)
• IPA^(key): /ˈdiːnəʊ/ (UK)

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪnəʊ, -iːnəʊ

dino (plural dinos)

1. (informal) A dinosaur (type of animal).
   • 2019 February 21, Howard Lee, “The Real Dino Killer: A One–Two Punch”, in Scientific American‎^[1]:

     So whereas attempts to single out a dino killer may have failed, for now, they do point to a conspiracy of culprits.

   • 2021 September 21, Karen Hopkin, “Dinosaurs Lived—and Made Little Dinos—in the Arctic”, in Scientific American‎^[2]:

     So far, Druckenmiller and his team have dug up species from seven different dino families: from big duck-billed dinos, ceretopsians, and tyrannosaurs to smaller thescelosaurs, leptoceratops, dromaeosaurs, and troodontids.

2. (video games, slang) A long-time participant in a multi-user dungeon.

   Hypernym: oldbie

• noid, indo, doin', Indo, Dion, Odin, doin, Noid, doni, do in, Indo-, nido-, nodi, NOID

dino

1. first-person singular present indicative of dinar

Likely borrowed from English dino. Equivalent to a clipping of dinosaurus. The term became especially prominent after the release of Jurassic Park in 1993, but predated the film by at least one or two years.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdi.noː/

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• Hyphenation: di‧no
• Rhymes: -inoː

dino m (plural dino's, diminutive dinootje n)

1. (informal) a dino, a dinosaur; archosaur of the super-order Dinosauria [from late 20th c.]

• dinosauriër (formal)
• dinosaurus

Clipping of dinosaurus

• IPA^(key): /ˈdino/, [ˈdino̞]
• Rhymes: -ino
• Hyphenation^(key): di‧no

dino (informal)

1. dino

• “dino”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• nido

From dinosaure.

• IPA^(key): /di.no/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -o
• Homophone: dinos

dino m (plural dinos)

1. dino

• dinosaure

dino

1. Romanization of ꦢꦶꦤ

dino (feminine dina, masculine plural dinos, feminine plural dinas)

1. (obsolete or poetic) Alternative form of digno

Shortening of dinossauro (“dinosaur”).

dino m (plural dinos)

1. (familiar) dinosaur (any of various extinct reptiles belonging to the Dinosauria)

   Synonym: dinossauro

• IPA^(key): /ˈdino/ [ˈd̪i.no]
• Rhymes: -ino
• Syllabification: di‧no

dino (feminine dina, masculine plural dinos, feminine plural dinas)

1. Obsolete spelling of digno.

• “dino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10