The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromδεινός“fearful, terrible”
- translingual · borrowed fromDeinonychus
- English todaydeinonychus
From translingual Deinonychus (1969), from Ancient Greek δεινός (deinós, “fearful, terrible”) (see dinosaur) + ὄνυξ (ónux, “nail, claw, talon”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekδεινός all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.