menagerie

See also: ménagerie

English

WOTD – 5 July 2010

Etymology

From French ménagerie, derived from ménager (“to keep house”), household. Housekeeping used to include taking care of domestic animals.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mɪˈnædʒəɹɪ/
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Noun

menagerie (plural menageries)

A collection of live wild animals on exhibition; the enclosure where they are kept.
- 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart Earth Abides
  In Sacramento a crazed woman opened the cages of a circus menagerie for fear the animals might starve to death, and had been mauled by a lioness.
A diverse or miscellaneous group.

Translations

collection of live wild animals on exhibition; the enclosure where they are kept

Armenian: գազանանոց (hy) (gazananocʿ)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 動物園 (zh), 动物园 (zh) (dòngwùyuán)
Finnish: eläintarha (fi)
French: ménagerie (fr) f
German: Menagerie (de) f
Greek: θηριοτροφείο (el) n (thiriotrofeío)
Ancient: θηριοτροφεῖον n (thēriotropheîon)
Ido: menajerio (io)
Italian: serraglio (it), recinto (it) m

Latin: vīvārium n
Macedonian: ѕверилник m (dzvérilnik), менажерија f (menažérija)
Polish: menażeria (pl) f
Portuguese: menagerie f
Romanian: menajerie (ro) f
Russian: звери́нец (ru) m (zverínec)
Spanish: casa de fieras (es) f
Turkish: hayvanat bahçesi (tr)
Volapük: nimikonlet (vo)

diverse or miscellaneous group

Finnish: sekalainen joukko

Russian: сброд (ru) m (sbrod) (disparaging)

Portuguese

Noun

menagerie f (plural menageries)

menagerie (collection of live wild animals on exhibition)

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