The Latin word for pig is?
Harbour porpoise the northwest Pacific and "P. p. vomerina" in the northeast Pacific. The English word porpoise comes from the French "pourpois" (Old French "porpais", 12th century), which is from Medieval Latin "porcopiscus", which is a compound of "porcus" (pig) and "piscus" (fish). The old word is probably a loan-translation of a Germanic word, compare Danish "marsvin" and Middle Dutch "mereswijn" (sea swine). Classical Latin had a similar name, "porculus marinus", and the notion behind the name is probably a fancied resemblance of the snout to that of a pig or the sound of a porpoise breathing resembling a pig snort. The
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