meaning - What does the suffix “-saurus” mean? - English Language . . . In thesaurus, the -saurus isn’t a suffix It’s part of the word The word actually comes from the Greek word thēsaurós, which means treasure or treasury In tyrannosaurus, the origin is from the Greek words turannos, which means tyrant, plus the word sauros, which means lizard
Whats a big-vocabulary word for someone with a big vocabulary? @TimLymington, the foot in question is a metrical foot, especially a dactyl (long-short-short) in quantitative verse--the basic foot of classical epic Since a long is equivalent to two shorts, this foot is divisible into two, and the patterns short-short-long-short-short and long-short-short-long would each be a foot and a half