reptile

Meanings

Noun

• A cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia; an amniote that is neither a synapsid nor a bird.
• A mean or grovelling person.

Adjective

• Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.
• Grovelling; low; vulgar.

Related

Similar words

• reptilious, creeping, crawling; reptitious

Origin

• From Middle English reptil, from Old French reptile, from Late Latin rēptile, neuter of reptilis, from Latin rēpō ("to creep"), from Proto-Indo-European *rep- ("to creep, slink") (Pokorny; Watkins, 1969).
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