13 animal names and their meanings – OxfordWords blog (May 31, 2016)

13 animal names and their meanings – OxfordWords blog (May 31, 2016)

Let’s take a look behind the meanings of some common animal names…

Ostrich

The bird’s name comes from a combination of the classical Latin avis, ‘bird’, and post-classical Latin struthio, strucio. The latter is derived from ancient Greek στρουθός(strouthos), which also means ‘sparrow’. The Greeks sometimes called the Ostrichστρουθοκάμηλος (strouthokamelos), literally ‘sparrow-camel’.

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