If my own two boys are any indication, kids looooooove dinosaurs! Use these fascinating creatures to teach children about languages. Sir Richard Owen, an English biologist, used Greek terms to give dinosaurs their name back in 1841: deinos means terrible or fearfully great, and saurus means lizard. The Latin term for dinosaur is Dinosauria. Most species of dinosaurs are named using Greek and Latin terms. Want to talk about dinosaurs around the world? Here’s how:
Spanish: el dinosaurio
French: le dinosaure
Italian: il dinosauro
Portuguese: o dinossaurio
Dutch: de dinosaurus
German: der Dinosaurier
Know some more? Leave a comment and keep this dinosaur list from going extinct!
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