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7-letter words (2 found)

PERLITE,REPTILE,

6-letter words (5 found)

PELITE,PELTER,PETREL,RETILE,TRIPLE,

5-letter words (18 found)

ELITE,LEPER,LITER,LITRE,PERIL,PETER,PETRE,PETRI,PIERT,PILER,PLIER,RELET,RELIE,RELIT,REPEL,RETIE,TILER,TRIPE,

4-letter words (42 found)

LEEP,LEER,LEET,LEIR,LEPT,LERE,LERP,LIER,LIPE,LIRE,LITE,PEEL,PEER,PELE,PELT,PERE,PERI,PERT,PIER,PIET,PILE,PIRL,PLIE,PREE,REEL,RETE,RIEL,RILE,RIPE,RIPT,RITE,TEEL,TEER,TEIL,TELE,TIER,TILE,TIRE,TIRL,TREE,TRIE,TRIP,

3-letter words (30 found)

EEL,ELT,ERE,IRE,LEE,LEI,LEP,LET,LIE,LIP,LIT,PEE,PEL,PER,PET,PIE,PIR,PIT,PRE,REE,REI,REP,RET,RIP,RIT,TEE,TEL,TIE,TIL,TIP,

2-letter words (11 found)

EE,EL,ER,ET,IT,LI,PE,PI,RE,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 109 words from reptile according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of reptile

reptile

Etymology

From Middle English reptil, from Old French reptile, from Late Latin rēptile, neuter of reptilis (“creeping”), from Latin rēpō (“to creep”), from Proto-Indo-European *rep- (“to creep, slink”) (Pokorny; Watkins, 1969).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹɛpˈtaɪl/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹɛp.taɪl/
  • Rhymes: -aɪl

Noun

reptile (plural reptiles)

  1. (strictly) A cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia; an amniote that is neither a synapsid nor a bird; excludes amphibians. [from 19th c.]
  2. (loosely, historical) A reptile or amphibian. [from 18th c.]
    Synonyms: herptile, herp
  3. (figuratively, dated) A mean, grovelling, loathsome or repulsive person.

Hyponyms

  • See also Thesaurus:reptile

Related terms

  • mammal-like reptile
  • Reptilia
  • reptilian
  • reptilianness
  • reptiloid
  • reptilology
  • reptilologist
  • reptoid
  • reptologist

Translations

Adjective

reptile (not comparable)

  1. Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.
  2. Grovelling; low; vulgar.

Synonyms

  • (creeping, crawling): reptilious, creeping, crawling; reptitious (obsolete)
  • (contemptible): See Thesaurus:despicable

See also

  • herpetology
  • Category:en:Reptiles for a list of reptiles in English
  • reptile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Peltier, peitrel, perlite, triple-E

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rēptilis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁɛp.til/

Noun

reptile m (plural reptiles)

  1. reptile

Derived terms

  • reptilien

Further reading

  • “reptile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology

Substantivized neuter of rēptilis (“creeping”), taken from the phrase animal rēptile.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈreːp.ti.le/, [ˈreːpt̪ɪɫ̪ɛ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈrep.ti.le/, [ˈrɛpt̪ile]

Noun

rēptile n (genitive rēptilis); third declension

  1. (Late Latin) a reptile

Declension

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

Descendants

  • → English: reptile
  • → French: reptile
  • → German: Reptil
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: reptil
  • → Spanish: reptil
  • → Swedish: reptil

References

  • rēptilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • rēptilis in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
  • “rēptilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “rēptilis”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC

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