Etymology

nimravid

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Today it means: Any of the large extinct feliforms of the family Nimravidae, of the Middle to Late Miocene (40—7 million years ago). Full definition →

translingual Nimravidae ← Latin avus
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  1. Latin · derived fromavus“ancestor”
  2. translingual · derived fromNimravidae
  3. English todaynimravid

From translingual Nimravidae, ultimately from Nimrod + Latin avus (“ancestor”).

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.