"It was a Unicorn in the same way nanny Ogg was a Unident."
Wait until you find out the depth of creativity contained in the naming of the "rhinoceros".
The word rhinoceros is derived through Latin from the Ancient Greek: ῥῑνόκερως, which is composed of ῥῑνο- (rhino-, "nose") and κέρας (keras, "horn") with a horn on the nose. The name has been in use since the 14th century.[8]
Little harder than uni and corn but still good
To be fair, it's a little easier if you're in the medical field, because rhino- is actually used as a medical prefix
An ear, nose, throat doctor's full title is actually Otorhinolaryngology
Means you can make up your own animals with horns in silly places and in arbitrary numbering:
Tesseracephaceros, for example. I'm no etymologist but I think he's got four horns on his head.
In Dutch they are actually called nosehorns
And hippopotamus!
To me it sounds more like unique-horn.
this is the answer
unicorn (n.)
early 13c., from Old French unicorne, from Late Latin unicornus (Vulgate), from noun use of Latin unicornis (adj.) "having one horn," from uni- "one" (from PIE root *oi-no- "one, unique") + cornus "horn" (from PIE root *ker- (1) "horn; head").
The Late Latin word translates Greek monoceros, itself rendering Hebrew re'em (Deuteronomy xxxiii.17 and elsewhere), which probably was a kind of wild ox. According to Pliny, a creature with a horse's body, deer's head, elephant's feet, lion's tail, and one black horn two cubits long projecting from its forehead. Compare German Einhorn, Welsh ungorn, Breton uncorn, Old Church Slavonic ino-rogu. Old English used anhorn as a loan-translation of Latin unicornis.
also from early 13c.
According to Pliny, a creature with a horse's body, deer's head, elephant's feet, lion's tail, and one black horn two cubits long projecting from its forehead
Pliny should have missed the last Elasmotherium by like 100,000 years, though, give or take a few years.
Triceratops
Tricorn
A eunuch horn is impossible to catch!
Isn't that just a regular horse?
That's the penis of a guy with no penis.
The butterfly from The Last Unicorn told us this.
Is that why I'm getting downvoted? Tough crowd.
The post is in the positives so I think you're ok. If I had to guess on the downvotes though it's not really a groundbreaking discovery that uni-corn can be broken into two words like that.
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I always took unicorn as one word, I never thought about the uni part meaning one.
Butt Stallion from Borderlands was a bicorn in fact, not a unicorn
Bicorniclops:
Wait until you hear about bicycles.
Is that like a unicycle but with two wheels?
They're for bisexuals
You made me spit out my tea
"It was a Unicorn in the same way nanny Ogg was a Unident."
Wait until you find out the depth of creativity contained in the naming of the "rhinoceros".
Little harder than uni and corn but still good
To be fair, it's a little easier if you're in the medical field, because rhino- is actually used as a medical prefix
An ear, nose, throat doctor's full title is actually Otorhinolaryngology
Means you can make up your own animals with horns in silly places and in arbitrary numbering:
Tesseracephaceros, for example. I'm no etymologist but I think he's got four horns on his head.
In Dutch they are actually called nosehorns
And hippopotamus!
To me it sounds more like unique-horn.
this is the answer
unicorn (n.) early 13c., from Old French unicorne, from Late Latin unicornus (Vulgate), from noun use of Latin unicornis (adj.) "having one horn," from uni- "one" (from PIE root *oi-no- "one, unique") + cornus "horn" (from PIE root *ker- (1) "horn; head").
The Late Latin word translates Greek monoceros, itself rendering Hebrew re'em (Deuteronomy xxxiii.17 and elsewhere), which probably was a kind of wild ox. According to Pliny, a creature with a horse's body, deer's head, elephant's feet, lion's tail, and one black horn two cubits long projecting from its forehead. Compare German Einhorn, Welsh ungorn, Breton uncorn, Old Church Slavonic ino-rogu. Old English used anhorn as a loan-translation of Latin unicornis.
also from early 13c.
That’s a pretty good description of Elasmotherium.
Pliny should have missed the last Elasmotherium by like 100,000 years, though, give or take a few years.
TriceratopsTricorn
A eunuch horn is impossible to catch!
Isn't that just a regular horse?
That's the penis of a guy with no penis.
The butterfly from The Last Unicorn told us this.
Is that why I'm getting downvoted? Tough crowd.
The post is in the positives so I think you're ok. If I had to guess on the downvotes though it's not really a groundbreaking discovery that uni-corn can be broken into two words like that.
28 up 18 down so far!
I always took unicorn as one word, I never thought about the uni part meaning one.
Butt Stallion from Borderlands was a bicorn in fact, not a unicorn