arsinoitheriumn.

Brit.

/ˌɑːsɪnəʊᵻˈθɪərɪəm/, U.S.

/ˌɑrsənoʊəˈθɪriəm/

Forms: 1900s– arsinoitherium, 1900s– arsinöitherium.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Arsinoitherium.

Etymology: < scientific Latin Arsinoitherium, genus name (see quot. 1902) < Arsinoe (classical Latin Arsinoē , Hellenistic Greek Ἀρσινόη ), the name of a city of the Egyptian region of Fayum in which the fossil remains of the mammal were found (see note) + scientific Latin -i- -i- connective + -therium -there comb. form.King Ptolemy II Philadelphus of Egypt (309–246 bc), who developed the city of Arsinoe as the metropolis of the region of Fayum (see Fayum n.), named it after his second wife and full sister Arsinoë II. The city is now called al-Fayoum.

Palaeontology.

An extinct rhinoceros-like herbivorous mammal of the genus Arsinoitherium, distantly related to elephants, with a large horn on each side of the snout, and known from fossil remains of the Eocene and Oligocene epochs.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > [noun] > fossil or extinct

legh1774

thylacothere1838

anthracothere1848

anchithere1868

amblypod1877

Bramathere1879

multituberculate1888

promammal1889

tillodont1889

tinoceratid1895

uintathere1898

arsinoitherium1902

symmetrodont1933

synapsid1956

1902 H. J. L. Beadnell Prelim. Note Arsinoitherium Zitteli 3 Discovery of Eocene mammalian and reptilian remains made last year by the Geological Survey of Egypt... The most important of these is a large, heavily built, ungulate, about the size of a rhinoceros, and for which the writer proposes the generic name Arsinoitherium, from Queen Arsinoe, after whom the Fayum was called in Ptolemic times.

1904 Daily Chron. 4 Jan. 9/1 The four-horned arsinöitherium.

1930 Discovery Nov. 386/2 The arsinoitherium, a huge beast the size of a rhinoceros, was among the most fantastic mammals which have ever existed.

2008 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Oct. 9/2 The dominating and all-powerful feature of the Arsinoitherium was the long pair of sharp-pointed horns protruding upward and outward for nearly two feet, an appendage both dangerous and fantastic.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	arsinoitherium
释义	arsinoitheriumn. Brit. /ˌɑːsɪnəʊᵻˈθɪərɪəm/, U.S. /ˌɑrsənoʊəˈθɪriəm/ Forms: 1900s– arsinoitherium, 1900s– arsinöitherium. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Arsinoitherium. Etymology: < scientific Latin Arsinoitherium, genus name (see quot. 1902) < Arsinoe (classical Latin Arsinoē , Hellenistic Greek Ἀρσινόη ), the name of a city of the Egyptian region of Fayum in which the fossil remains of the mammal were found (see note) + scientific Latin -i- -i- connective + -therium -there comb. form.King Ptolemy II Philadelphus of Egypt (309–246 bc), who developed the city of Arsinoe as the metropolis of the region of Fayum (see Fayum n.), named it after his second wife and full sister Arsinoë II. The city is now called al-Fayoum. Palaeontology. An extinct rhinoceros-like herbivorous mammal of the genus Arsinoitherium, distantly related to elephants, with a large horn on each side of the snout, and known from fossil remains of the Eocene and Oligocene epochs. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > [noun] > fossil or extinct legh1774 thylacothere1838 anthracothere1848 anchithere1868 amblypod1877 Bramathere1879 multituberculate1888 promammal1889 tillodont1889 tinoceratid1895 uintathere1898 arsinoitherium1902 symmetrodont1933 synapsid1956 1902 H. J. L. Beadnell Prelim. Note Arsinoitherium Zitteli 3 Discovery of Eocene mammalian and reptilian remains made last year by the Geological Survey of Egypt... The most important of these is a large, heavily built, ungulate, about the size of a rhinoceros, and for which the writer proposes the generic name Arsinoitherium, from Queen Arsinoe, after whom the Fayum was called in Ptolemic times. 1904 Daily Chron. 4 Jan. 9/1 The four-horned arsinöitherium. 1930 Discovery Nov. 386/2 The arsinoitherium, a huge beast the size of a rhinoceros, was among the most fantastic mammals which have ever existed. 2008 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Oct. 9/2 The dominating and all-powerful feature of the Arsinoitherium was the long pair of sharp-pointed horns protruding upward and outward for nearly two feet, an appendage both dangerous and fantastic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1902
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