"Dinocochlea Dinocochlea ingens is a trace fossil specimen held in the Natural History Museum of London. It is a symmetrical helicospiral several metres in length that was famously unexplained until shown in 2009 to be a concretion formed around the burrow of a worm. Found in 1921 in the Wealden area of Sussex in England during construction of an arterial road, ""Dinocochlea"" was originally presumed to be a fossilised gastropod shell. As such, it was given a Latin name that translates to ""giant terrible snail"" using the ""dino-"" prefix in a nod to ""Dinosaur"" (""terrible lizard"") and refers to the"
"of the Latin words ""draco"" meaning ""dragon"", and ""venator"" meaning ""hunter""; thus, ""dragon hunter"". ""Draco"" refers to its discovery in the foothills of Drakensberg, which is ""Dragon’s Mountain"" in the Dutch language. The specific name, ""regenti"", was named in the honor of the late Regent ‘Lucas’ Huma, who was Professor Kitching’s field assistant. ""Dracovenator"" was described and named by Adam M. Yates in 2006 and the type species is ""Dracovenator regenti"". Yates (2005) assigned ""Dracovenator"" to the clade Neotheropoda. The first cladistic analysis found that this genus formed a clade with the basal theropods ""Dilophosaurus"" and ""Zupaysaurus"". The skull of"
"Dominus (title) Dominus is the Latin word for master or owner. As a title of sovereignty the term under the Roman Republic had all the associations of the Greek ""Tyrannos""; refused during the early principate, it finally became an official title of the Roman Emperors under Diocletian (this is where the term ""dominate"", used to describe a political system of Roman Empire in 284-476, is derived from). Dominus, the French equivalent being ""sieur"", was the Latin title of the feudal, superior and mesne, lords, and also an ecclesiastical and academical title. The ecclesiastical title was rendered in English ""sir"", which"
"Sinraptor Sinraptor is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic. The name ""Sinraptor"" comes from the Latin prefix ""Sino"", meaning Chinese, and ""Raptor"" meaning thief. The specific name ""dongi"" honours Dong Zhiming. Despite its name, ""Sinraptor"" is not related to dromaeosaurids (often nicknamed ""raptors"") like ""Velociraptor"". The holotype specimen of ""Sinraptor"" was uncovered from the Shishugou Formation during a joint Chinese/Canadian expedition to the northwestern Chinese desert in 1987, and described by Philip J. Currie and Zhao Xijin in 1994. Standing nearly tall and measuring roughly in length, two species of ""Sinraptor"" have been named. ""S. dongi"", the"
"the moon (Luna/Selene) and the underworld (usually Hecate). Diana (pronounced with long 'ī' and 'ā') is an adjectival form developed from an ancient *""divios"", corresponding to later 'divus', 'dius', as in Dius Fidius, Dea Dia and in the neuter form ""dium"" meaning the sky. It is derived from Proto-Indo-European ""*d(e)y(e)w"", meaning ""bright sky"" or ""daylight""; the same word is also the root behind the name of the Aryan Vedic sky god Dyaus, as well as the Latin words deus (god), ""dies"" (day, daylight), and ""diurnal"" (daytime). On the Tablets of Pylos a theonym διϝια (""diwia"") is supposed as referring to"
"from the similar-sounding French suffix ""-ais(e)"", which is originally from the Latin adjectival ending ""-ensis"", designating origin from a place: thus Hispaniensis (Spanish), Danensis (Danish), etc. Mostly for Middle Eastern and South Asian locales and in Latinate names for the various people that ancient Romans encountered (e.g. Allemanni, Helvetii) Used especially for Greek locations. Often used for French locations. Often used for British and Irish locations. While derived from French, these are also official demonyms in English. It is much rarer to find Demonyms created with a prefix. Mostly they are from Africa and the Pacific, and are not generally"
"Dionysius The Latin name Dionysius (), a Romanized form of the Greek name Dionysios, was common in classical and post-classical times. Etymologically it is a nominalized adjective formed with a -ios suffix from the stem Dionys- of the name of the Greek god, Dionysos, parallel to Apollon-ios from Apollon, with meanings of Dionysos' and Apollo's, etc. The exact beliefs attendant on the original assignment of such names remain unknown. Regardless of the language of origin of Dionysos and Apollon, the -ios/-ius suffix is associated with a full range of endings of the first and second declension in the Greek and"
"Deus Deus () is Latin for ""god"" or ""deity"". Latin ""deus"" and ""dīvus"" ""divine"", are descended from Proto-Indo-European *""deiwos"", ""celestial"" or ""shining"", from the same root as ""*Dyēus"", the reconstructed chief god of the Proto-Indo-European pantheon. In Classical Latin, ""deus"" (feminine ""dea"") was a general noun referring to a deity, while in technical usage a ""divus"" or ""diva"" was a figure who had become divine, such as a divinized emperor. In Late Latin, ""Deus"" came to be used mostly for the Christian God. It was inherited by the Romance languages in French ""Dieu"", Spanish ""Dios"", Portuguese and Galician ""Deus"", Italian"
"spelling. Others misspelling synonyms are descript for genus (see synonyms in taxobox). However, the ""Dromiceius"" spelling was used by Dale Russell in his 1972 naming of the dinosaur ""Dromiceiomimus"". Several emu species were common prior to European settlement in 1788: A number of other emu fossils from Australia described as separate species are now regarded as chronosubspecies at best, given the considerable variation even between living individuals. There are also some unidentifiable remains of emu-like birds from rocks as old as the middle Miocene. The Indian bird ""Hypselornis"" was originally classified as Dromaius sivalensis, before being moved to its own"
"(δαίμων) meaning ""demon"" and ""sauros"" (σαύρα) meaning ""reptile"". The specific name is derived from the Greek word ""chauliodous"" (χαυλιόδους) meaning ""prominent toothed"", which is in reference to its procumbent front teeth. ""Daemonosaurus"" is a basal theropod that lies outside the clade Neotheropoda, a group that includes more advanced Triassic theropods like ""Coelophysis"" and their descendants. With such a basal position, it represents a lineage that extended from the earliest radiation of dinosaurs in the Middle Triassic with forms such as ""Eoraptor"" and ""Herrerasaurus"" from South America. A phylogenetic analysis conducted in its original description found ""Daemonosaurus chauliodus"" to be closely"
"and named officially by Blair W. McPhee, Matthew F. Bonnan, Adam M. Yates, Johann Neveling and Jonah N. Choiniere in 2015 with the type species ""Pulanesaura eocollum"". The generic name is derived from the Sesoth word for ""rain-maker/bringer"", ""Pulane"", in reference to the heavy rain conditions under which the remains were collected, and the feminine form of the common dinosaur name suffix, ""saura"", meaning ""lizard"" in Latin. The specific name is derived from Greek ""eo"", meaning ""dawn"", and Latin ""collum"", meaning ""neck"", in reference to ""Pulanesaura"" being a very basal sauropod not yet showing the most archetypal trait of more"
"dinosaurs likely began with small, cursorial animals similar to ""Panphagia"", and that there is a ""general similarity among all of these basal dinosaurs [suggesting] that few structural changes stand"" between ""Panphagia"", ""Eoraptor"", and two basal theropods which have yet to be described. The type species of ""Panphagia"" is ""P. protos""; the specific name, meaning ""the first"" in Greek, is a reference to its basal position. The teeth of ""Panphagia"" indicate a possible omnivorous diet, transitional in form between the mostly carnivorous theropods and the herbivorous sauropodomorphs. The teeth in the back of the jaw are shorter than those in the"
"Daemon (classical mythology) Daemon is the Latin word for the Ancient Greek daimon (δαίμων: ""god"", ""godlike"", ""power"", ""fate""), which originally referred to a lesser deity or guiding spirit; the daemons of ancient Greek religion and mythology and of later Hellenistic religion and philosophy. The word is derived from Proto-Indo-European ""*daimon"" ""provider, divider (of fortunes or destinies)"", from the root ""*da-"" ""to divide"". Daimons were possibly seen as the souls of men of the golden age acting as tutelary deities, according to entry δαίμων at Liddell & Scott. Daemons are benevolent or benign nature spirits, beings of the same nature as"
"Dione (moon) Dione ( ; ) is a moon of Saturn. It was discovered by Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1684. It is named after the Titaness Dione of Greek mythology. It is also designated Saturn IV. Giovanni Domenico Cassini named the four moons he discovered (Tethys, Dione, Rhea and Iapetus) ""Sidera Lodoicea"" (""the stars of Louis"") to honor king Louis XIV. Cassini found Dione in 1684 using a large aerial telescope he set up on the grounds of the Paris Observatory. The satellites of Saturn were not named until 1847, when William Herschel's son John Herschel published ""Results"
"and ""sauros"" (σαῦρος) for ""lizard"". The specific name, ""dorsalis"", comes from the Latin word ""dorsum"" meaning ""spike"", in reference to a row of enlarged keeled scales on the middle of the lizard's back which form a crest that extends almost to the tip of its vent. ""Dipsosaurus"" is a monotypic genus with ""D. dorsalis"" being its only recognized species. The desert iguana is a medium-sized lizard which grows to including the tail. They are pale gray-tan to cream in color with a light brown reticulated pattern on their backs and sides. Down the center of the back is a row"
"Darwinsaurus Darwinsaurus (meaning ""Darwin's lizard"") is a genus of herbivorous styracosternan ornithopod dinosaur. In the early nineteenth century dinosaur remains were discovered in the Shornden Quarry at Shornden near Hastings in East Sussex. These were first reported by Richard Owen in 1842. In 1889 they were referred to ""Iguanodon fittoni"" by Richard Lydekker. They were then assigned to ""Hypselospinus fittoni"" by David Bruce Norman in 2010. In 2012 Gregory S. Paul named them as a separate genus and species. The type species is Darwinsaurus evolutionis. The generic name honours Charles Darwin for his theory of evolution. The specific name refers"
"106 Dione Dione (minor planet designation: 106 Dione) is a large main-belt asteroid. It probably has a composition similar to 1 Ceres. It was discovered by J. C. Watson on October 10, 1868, and named after Dione, a Titaness in Greek mythology who was sometimes said to have been the mother of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty. It is listed as a member of the Hecuba group of asteroids that orbit near the 2:1 mean-motion resonance with Jupiter. Dione was observed to occult a dim star on January 19, 1983, by observers in Denmark, Germany and the"
"Deo is a combination of two words from different languages. Doxa is the Greek word for “Glory” and Deo is the Latin word for “God”. In combination, these words reflect the ministry’s goal to see God change cities into places where his kingdom is established, bringing different people together in this cause. The City Changers Institute (CCI) was established as part of the Doxa Deo family in the year 2009. The institute focuses on the need for training and developing City Changers on a formal level. The CCI focuses on multiple disciplines ranging from post-secondary, under as well as post"
"Darwinopterus Darwinopterus (meaning ""Darwin's wing"") is a genus of pterosaur, discovered in China and named after biologist Charles Darwin. Between 30 and 40 fossil specimens have been identified, all collected from the Tiaojishan Formation, which dates to the middle Jurassic period, 160.89–160.25 Ma ago. The type species, ""D. modularis"", was described in February 2010. ""D. modularis"" was the first known pterosaur to display features of both long-tailed ('rhamphorhynchoid') and short-tailed (pterodactyloid) pterosaurs, and was described as a transitional fossil between the two groups. Two additional species, ""D. linglongtaensis"" and ""D. robustodens"", were described from the same fossil beds in December"
"telescoping of its capitular shaft. Sinraptor Sinraptor is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic. The name ""Sinraptor"" comes from the Latin prefix ""Sino"", meaning Chinese, and ""Raptor"" meaning thief. The specific name ""dongi"" honours Dong Zhiming. Despite its name, ""Sinraptor"" is not related to dromaeosaurids (often nicknamed ""raptors"") like ""Velociraptor"". The holotype specimen of ""Sinraptor"" was uncovered from the Shishugou Formation during a joint Chinese/Canadian expedition to the northwestern Chinese desert in 1987, and described by Philip J. Currie and Zhao Xijin in 1994. Standing nearly tall and measuring roughly in length, two species of ""Sinraptor"" have"
"a substantive, ""divus"" refers to a ""deified"" or divinized mortal. Both ""deus"" and ""divus"" derive from Indo-European ""*deywos"", Old Latin ""deivos"". Servius confirms that ""deus"" is used for ""perpetual deities"" ""(deos perpetuos)"", but ""divus"" for people who become divine ""(divos ex hominibus factos)"". While this distinction is useful in considering the theological foundations of Imperial cult, it sometimes vanishes in practice, particularly in Latin poetry; Vergil, for instance, mostly uses ""deus"" and ""divus"" interchangeably. Varro and Ateius, however, maintained that the definitions should be reversed. See also Imperial cult: ""Divus, deus"" and the ""numen"". The formula ""do ut des"" (""I"
"Mesozoic. They were overtaken by the flowering plants, which first appeared in the Cretaceous, and became dominant in the Cenozoic era. They were the main food of herbivorous dinosaurs, and their resins and poisons would have given protection against herbivores. Reproductive features of modern conifers had evolved by the end of the Mesozoic era. ""Conifer"" is a Latin word, a compound of ""conus"" (cone) and ""ferre"" (to bear), meaning ""the one that bears (a) cone(s)"". The division name Pinophyta conforms to the rules of the ""International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN)"", which state (Article 16.1) that"
"Diplodocus Diplodocus (, , or ) is a genus of diplodocid sauropod dinosaurs whose fossils were first discovered in 1877 by S. W. Williston. The generic name, coined by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1878, is a neo-Latin term derived from Greek διπλός (""diplos"") ""double"" and δοκός (dokos) ""beam"", in reference to its double-beamed chevron bones located in the underside of the tail. Chevron bones of this particular form were initially believed to be unique to ""Diplodocus""; since then they have been discovered in other members of the diplodocid family as well as in non-diplodocid sauropods, such as ""Mamenchisaurus"". It is"
"Datousaurus Datousaurus, meaning ""Big-head Lizard"" (from the Chinese da tou ""Big Head"" and Greek sauros/σαυρος ""lizard"") was a dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic. It was a sauropod collected from the Lower Shaximiao Formation in Dashanpu, Zigong Sichuan province, China. It shared the local Middle Jurassic landscape with other sauropods ""Shunosaurus"", ""Omeisaurus"" and ""Protognathosaurus"", the ornithopod ""Xiaosaurus"" and the early stegosaur ""Huayangosaurus"" as well as the carnivorous ""Gasosaurus"". ""Datousaurus"" was named by Dong Zhiming and Tang in 1984. To date, only two partial skeletons have been discovered. Neither had an articulated skull, although one skull has been discovered that has been"
"of their teeth from spreading when subjected to the forces of feeding. ""Albertosaurus"" was named by Henry Fairfield Osborn in a one-page note at the end of his 1905 description of ""Tyrannosaurus rex"". The name honours Alberta, the Canadian province established the same year, in which the first remains were found. The generic name also incorporates the Greek term ""σαυρος""/""sauros"" (""lizard""), the most common suffix in dinosaur names. The type species is ""Albertosaurus sarcophagus""; the specific name is derived from Ancient Greek σαρκοφάγος (""sarkophagos"") meaning ""flesh-eating"" and having the same etymology as the funeral container with which it shares its"
"of Jupiter after the Greek mythological figure Io. Marius' names were not widely adopted until centuries later (mid-20th century). In much of the earlier astronomical literature, Io was generally referred to by its Roman numeral designation (a system introduced by Galileo) as """", or as ""the first satellite of Jupiter"". Features on Io are named after characters and places from the Io myth, as well as deities of fire, volcanoes, the Sun, and thunder from various myths, and characters and places from Dante's ""Inferno"": names appropriate to the volcanic nature of the surface. Since the surface was first seen up"
"Saurischia Saurischia ( , meaning ""reptile-hipped"" from the Greek ' () meaning 'lizard' and ' () meaning 'hip joint') is one of the two basic divisions of dinosaurs (the other being Ornithischia). ‘Saurischia’ translates to lizard-hipped. In 1888, Harry Seeley classified dinosaurs into two orders, based on their hip structure, though today most paleontologists classify Saurischia as an unranked clade rather than an order. All carnivorous dinosaurs (certain types of theropods) are traditionally classified as saurischians, as are all of the birds and one of the two primary lineages of herbivorous dinosaurs, the sauropodomorphs. At the end of the Cretaceous"
"The Latin noun ""homō"" (genitive ""hominis"") means ""human being"", while the participle ""sapiēns"" means ""discerning, wise, sensible"". The species was initially thought to have emerged from a predecessor within the genus ""Homo"" around 300,000 to 200,000 years ago. A problem with the morphological classification of ""anatomically modern"" was that it would not have included certain extant populations. For this reason, a lineage-based (cladistic) definition of ""H. sapiens"" has been suggested, in which ""H. sapiens"" would by definition refer to the modern human lineage following the split from the Neanderthal lineage. Such a cladistic definition would extend the age of ""H."
"Dilophosauridae Dilophosauridae is a family of medium to large sized theropod dinosaurs. The name Dilophosauridae is derived from Greek, with “di” meaning “two,” “lophos” meaning “crest,” “sauros” meaning “lizard,” and “idae” meaning “family”. While the name suggests that all dilophosaurids have two crests, this is not applicable to all dilophosaurids. The Dilophosauridae is anchored by the genus ""Dilophosaurus"", and therefore the name comes from the distinctive two crests of the genus. Dilophosaurids were large bipedal predators with lengths of 4 to 7 metres and estimated adult weights of 300 to 500 kg. They are well known for their distinctive head"
"the trees. This strategy may have reduced competition between the two genera. A similar pattern of height difference possibly associated with feeding behaviors is found in the diplodocids. Datousaurus Datousaurus, meaning ""Big-head Lizard"" (from the Chinese da tou ""Big Head"" and Greek sauros/σαυρος ""lizard"") was a dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic. It was a sauropod collected from the Lower Shaximiao Formation in Dashanpu, Zigong Sichuan province, China. It shared the local Middle Jurassic landscape with other sauropods ""Shunosaurus"", ""Omeisaurus"" and ""Protognathosaurus"", the ornithopod ""Xiaosaurus"" and the early stegosaur ""Huayangosaurus"" as well as the carnivorous ""Gasosaurus"". ""Datousaurus"" was named by Dong"
"""sauros"", ""lizard"", a usual element in the name of dinosaurs — Casamiquela assumed the new genus was a theropod dinosaur. The specific name is derived from Greek ""pygmaios"", ""dwarf"": it was thought the form presented a small ""Compsognathus""-like coelurosaurian belonging to the Coeluridae and one of the smallest dinosaurs then known. The holotype is CTES-PZ-1711, consisting of a sacrum, pelvic elements and both femora. The dispersed bones are compressed, crushed by the weight of the layers above. Casamiquela had already indicated that the new species was very distinct because of an atypically long ilium and short ischium. In 1978 John"
"the primordial nature of the god. Another etymology proposed by Nigidius Figulus is related by Macrobius: ""Ianus"" would be Apollo and Diana ""Iana"", by the addition of a ""D"" for the sake of euphony. This explanation has been accepted by A. B. Cook and J. G. Frazer. It supports all the assimilations of Janus to the bright sky, the sun and the moon. It supposes a former *Dianus, formed on *dia- < *dy-eð from Indo-European root *dey- shine represented in Latin by ""dies"" day, Diovis and Iuppiter. However the form Dianus postulated by Nigidius is not attested. A third etymology"
"usage of the former two is sometimes blurred, it corresponds to the distinction in Western cultures between ""god"" and ""deity"", Latin ""genius"" (meaning a generative principle, ""spirit"") and ""deus"" or ""divus""; ""dì"", sometimes translated as ""thearch"", implies a manifested or incarnate ""godly"" power. It is etymologically and figuratively analogous to the concept of ""di"" as the base of a fruit, which falls and produces other fruits. This analogy is attested in the ""Shuowen jiezi"" explaining ""deity"" as ""what faces the base of a melon fruit"". The latter term 仙 ""xiān"" unambiguously means a man who has reached immortality, similarly to"