Appendix:Animal adjectives deriving from Latin and Ancient Greek

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A[edit]

Animal Latin Ancient Greek
ant formic, formicine
ape simian
ass asinine

B[edit]

Animal Latin Ancient Greek
badger meline
bear ursine arctic
beaver castorine
bee apine
bird avian, avine ornithic
buffalo bubaline
butterfly papilionaceous lepidopterous

C[edit]

Animal Latin Ancient Greek
camel cameline
capuchin monkey cebine cebine
carp cyprine
cat feline
chicken galline
civet viverrine
cod gadine
cow bovine, vaccine
crab cancrine
crane gruine
crocodile crocodilian, crocodiline
crow corvine

D[edit]

Animal Latin Ancient Greek
deer cervine
dog canine cynic
dove columbine
duck anatine

E[edit]

Animal Latin Ancient Greek
eagle aquiline aetic
earthworm lumbricine
elephant elephantine
elk alcine

F[edit]

Animal Latin Ancient Greek
fish piscine ichthyic
flea pulicine
fly muscine
fox vulpine
frog ranine

G[edit]

Animal Latin Ancient Greek
giraffe giraffine
goat caprine, hircine tragine

H[edit]

Animal Latin Ancient Greek
hare leporine
hawk accipitrine
hippopotamus hippopotamic
horse equine, caballine hippic
human human, hominine anthropic
hyena hyenic
hyrax hyracine hyracine

I[edit]

Animal Latin Ancient Greek

J[edit]

Animal Latin Ancient Greek

K[edit]

Animal Latin Ancient Greek

L[edit]

Animal Latin Ancient Greek
lion leonine
louse pediculine

M[edit]

Animal Latin Ancient Greek
mouse murine

N[edit]

Animal Latin Ancient Greek

O[edit]

Animal Latin Ancient Greek
otter lutrine
owl strigine strigine
ox bovine, vaccine, taurine

P[edit]

Animal Latin Ancient Greek
panther pantherine pantherine
parrot psittacine
pig porcine, suine

Q[edit]

Animal Latin Ancient Greek

R[edit]

Animal Latin Ancient Greek

S[edit]

Animal Latin Ancient Greek

T[edit]

U[edit]

V[edit]

W[edit]

Wolf Lupine

X[edit]

Y[edit]

Z[edit]