Noun: crocodile
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | crocodile |
| Plural m | crocodiles |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like crocodile
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Derived from Old French cocodril, inherited from Latin crocodīlus with metathesis, later respelled to match the Latin form. Compare English crocodile, itself respelled from Middle English cocodrill. See: Latin Nouns '
crocodīlus', English Nouns '
crocodile', Middle English Nouns '
cocodrill'.
Verbs referencing "crocodile"
English Nouns
crocodile, Romanian Nouns
crocodil.
Translations