Latin

Alternative forms

• corcodīllus

Noun

crocodīlus m ‎(genitive crocodīlī); second declension

1. A crocodile

Descendants

• English: crocodile
• French: crocodile
• Italian: coccodrillo
  • Maltese: kukkudrill
• Portuguese: crocodilo
• Romanian: crocodil
• Spanish: cocodrilo

References

• crocodilus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• crocodilus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “crocodilus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.