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tigris
Persian/Greek · ancient
"the tiger, or arrow-swift"
possibly from an old word for arrow, describing the animal's speed
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tigre
Latin/Old French · ancient
"the striped big cat"
carried through Greek and Latin into French animal vocabulary
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tiger
English · 1200s
"a large striped big cat"
settled as the English word for the large striped cat
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