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Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin mamma

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin mammālisnom.

Latin mammalbor.

English mammal

Borrowed from Latin mammal, coined 1758 by Linnaeus for the class of mammals, from Late Latin mammalis (“of the breast”), from Latin mamma (“breast”), perhaps cognate with mamma (mother).

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmæməl/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -æməl
Hyphenation: mam‧mal

Noun

mammal (plural mammals)

A vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having fur or hair and producing milk with which to feed their young.
Hypernyms: vertebrate < animal < organism < creature

Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:mammal
(paleontology) A vertebrate with three bones in the inner ear and one in the jaw.

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Translations

animal of the class Mammalia

Afrikaans: soogdier (af)
Albanian: gjitar (sq) m
Arabic: ثَدْيِيّ m (ṯadyiyy)
Armenian: կաթնասուն (hy) (katʻnasun)
Assamese: স্তন্যপায়ী (stoinnopayi), স্তন্যপায়ী প্ৰাণী (stoinnopayi prani)
Asturian: mamíferu (ast) m
Azerbaijani: məməli
Basque: ugaztun (eu)
Belarusian: млекако́рмячае n (mljekakórmjačaje), сысу́н m (sysún), звер m (zvjer)
Bengali: স্তন্যপায়ী (bn) (stonnopaẏi)
Bulgarian: боза́йник (bg) m (bozájnik)
Burmese: နို့တိုက်သတ္တဝါ (my) (nui.tuiksatta.wa)
Catalan: mamífer (ca) m
Chechen: декха дийнат (deqa diı̇nat)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 哺乳類 / 哺乳类 (zh) (bǔrǔlèi), 哺乳動物 / 哺乳动物 (zh) (bǔrǔ dòngwù)
Czech: savec (cs) m
Danish: pattedyr (da) n
Dutch: zoogdier (nl) n
Esperanto: mamulo (eo)
Estonian: imetaja
Faroese: súgdjór (fo) n
Finnish: nisäkäs (fi)
French: mammifère (fr) m
Galician: mamífero (gl) m
Georgian: ძუძუმწოვარი (ka) (ʒuʒumc̣ovari)
German: Säugetier (de) n
Greek: θηλαστικό (el) n (thilastikó)
Guarani:
Paraguayan Guarani: okambúva (gn)
Hebrew: יוֹנֵק (he) (yonék)
Hindi: स्तनपायी (hi) m (stanpāyī), स्तनधारी (hi) m (standhārī)
Hungarian: emlős (hu)
Icelandic: spendýr (is) n
Ido: mamifero (io)
Indonesian: mamalia (id), hewan menyusui
Interlingua: mammifero, mammal
Inuktitut: ᒪᒻᒪᓛᑎᒃ (mammalaatik)
Irish: mamach (ga) m
Italian: mammifero (it) m
Japanese: 哺乳類 (ja) (ほにゅうるい, honyūrui)
Kannada: ಸಸ್ತನಿ (sastani)
Kazakh: сүтқоректі (sütqorekti)
Khmer: ថនិកសត្វ (thaʼnikaʼ sat)
Korean: 포유류(哺乳類) (ko) (poyuryu)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: şîrdar (ku), guhandar (ku)
Kyrgyz: сүт эмүүчүл (süt emüücül)
Lao: ສັດລ້ຽງລູກດ້ວຍນົມ (lo) (sat līang lūk duāi nom)
Latin: mammalis, mammalia
Latvian: zīdītājs m
Lithuanian: žinduolis (lt) m
Low German:
German Low German: Söögdeert n
Luxembourgish: Mamendéier (lb) n
Macedonian: цицач m (cicač)
Malay: mamalia (ms)
Malayalam: സസ്തനി (sastani)
Maori: kararehe whāngote
Mongolian: хөхтөн (mn) (xöxtön)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: pattedyr (no) n

Nynorsk: pattedyr n
Occitan: mamifèr (oc) m
Persian: پستاندار (fa) (pestândâr)
Plautdietsch: Sutia n
Polish: ssak (pl) m anim
Portuguese: mamífero (pt) m
Punjabi: ਥਣਧਾਰੀ m (thaṇdhārī)
Romanian: mamifer (ro) n
Russian: млекопита́ющее (ru) n (mlekopitájuščeje), зверь (ru) m (zverʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: сисар m, сисавац m

Roman: sisar (sh) m, sisavac (sh) m
Silesian: cyckocz m
Sinhalese: ක්‍ෂීරපායීන් (kṣīrapāyīn)
Slovak: cicavec (sk) m
Slovene: sesalec (sl) m
Spanish: mamífero (es) m
Swedish: däggdjur (sv) n
Tagalog: wilik, mamipero, mamalya (tl)
Tajik: ширхӯр (tg) (širxür)
Tatar: имезүче (tt) (imezüçe)
Telugu: క్షీరదం (te) (kṣīradaṁ)
Thai: สัตว์เลี้ยงลูกด้วยน้ำนม (th) (sàt-líiang-lûuk-dûai-náam-nom), สัตว์กินนม (sàt-gin-nom)
Tupinambá: okambúba'e
Turkish: memeli (tr), memeli hayvan (tr)
Turkmen: süýdemdiriji
Ukrainian: ссаве́ць m (ssavécʹ), звір (uk) m (zvir)
Urdu: سَتْنَپَایِی (satnapāyī)
Uzbek: sut emizuvchil
Vietnamese: động vật có vú, (informal) thú (vi) (獸)
Volapük: (♂♀) sügaf (vo), (♂♀) süganim (vo)
Welsh: mamal (cy) m
West Frisian: sûchdier n
Yiddish: זויגער m (zoyger)

paleontology: vertebrate with three bones in the inner ear and one in the jaw

Finnish: nisäkäs (fi)
Greek: θηλαστικό (el) n (thilastikó)

Latin

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Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin mamma

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin mammālisnom.

Latin mammal

Nominalization of mammālis.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mamˈmaː.lɪs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [mamˈmaː.lis]

Noun

mammal n (genitive mammālis); third declension

(taxonomy) mammal
- 1864, Jan van der Hoeven, Philosophia Zoologica‎^[1], E. J. Brill, pages 178-179:
  Os pterygoideum comparandum est cum processu pterygoideo ossis sphenoidei, aut potius cum lamina interna hujus processus in corpore humano, quae lamina in embryone partem seperatam ab osse sphenoideo efformat et in quibusdam mammalibus (in nonnullis Marsupialibus atque Edentatis, in Cane etc.) diutius solet tanquam distinctum se separatum os superesse.
  The pterygoid bone is to be compared with the pterygoid process of the sphenoid bone, or rather with the internal lamina of this process in the human body, which lamina in the embryo forms a separate part from the sphenoid bone and in some mammals (in some Marsupials and Edentates, in the Dog, etc.) tends to survive for a longer period as a distinct, separate bone.

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	mammal	mammālia
genitive	mammālis	mammālium
dative	mammālī	mammālibus
accusative	mammal	mammālia
ablative	mammālī	mammālibus
vocative	mammal	mammālia