Porcine

Definition: Porcine

Porcine

Adjective

1. Relating to or suggesting swine; "comparison between human and porcine pleasures".

2. Repellently fat; "a bald porcine old man".

3. Resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy; "piggish table manners"; "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father"; "swinish slavering over food".

Date "porcine" was first used: sometime in the early 15th century. (references)

Etymology: Porcine \Por"cine\, adjective. [Latin expression porcinus, from porcus swine. See Pork.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Porcine

Synonyms: gross (adj), hoggish (adj), piggish (adj), piggy (adj), swinish (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Porcine

English words defined with "porcine": gross ♦ hoggish ♦ piggish, piggy ♦ swinish. (references)

Specialty definitions using "porcine": Colipases ♦ Encephalomyelitis, Enzootic Porcine, Enteroviruses, Porcine ♦ Gastroenteritis Virus, Porcine Transmissible ♦ Influenza A Virus, Porcine ♦ LLC-PK1 Cells ♦ porcine brucellosis, Porcine Dermatitis and Nephropathy Syndrome, porcine endogenous retrovirus B, porcine endogenous retrovirus B1, porcine endogenous retrovirus C, porcine epidemical abortion, porcine haemagglutinating encephalomyelitis, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, Production of glycopeptide antigens of porcine Transmissible Gastroenteritis Virus, pure-bred breeding pig ♦ store pig, swine vesicular disease ♦ young pig. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Porcine" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Romanian (swine).

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Commercial Usage: Porcine

Domain	Title
Books	A New Porcine History of Philosophy and Religion (reference) Douze ans de statistiques relatives à la production porcine 1968-1979 : tableaux de résultats jusqu'à l'année 1980 incluse : étude (reference) Human Insulin by Tryptic Transpeptidations of Porcine Insulin and Biosynthetic Procursors (reference) Novel Non-Surgical Porcine Model of Chronic Left Ventricular Dysfunction: Identification of Myocardial Viability Using Different Diagnostic technique (reference) Pig Tales: A Journal for Porcine Ponderings and Your Hog-Wildest Fantasies (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Porcine

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		In the porcine sector, increase in demand is expected only if steps are taken to modernize the industry, which will result in more competitive pork products. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Porcine

"Porcine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.74% of the time. "Porcine" is used about 54 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	90.74%	49	48,677
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	3.7%	2	245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)	3.7%	2	245,945
Noun (proper)	1.85%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	54	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Porcine

Expressions using "porcine": contagious porcine pleuropneumonia ♦ porcine brucellosis ♦ Porcine Dermatitis and Nephropathy Syndrome ♦ porcine endogenous retrovirus B ♦ porcine endogenous retrovirus B1 ♦ porcine endogenous retrovirus C ♦ porcine epidemical abortion ♦ porcine haemagglutinating encephalomyelitis ♦ porcine pleuropneumonia ♦ porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome ♦ Production of glycopeptide antigens of porcine Transmissible Gastroenteritis Virus. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Porcine

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
porcine	21
porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome	20
herpevirus porcine	5
porcine valve	3
porcine circovirus	2
fund porcine	2
porcine parvovirus	2
porcine stress syndrome	2
bovine equine porcine	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Porcine

Language		Translations for "porcine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		derri (porky). (various references)

Arabic		‏خنزيري (swinish). (various references)

Bulgarian		свински (hoggish, pork, swinish). (various references)

Danish		calcitonin, svin (calcitonin). (various references)

Dutch		calcitonine, van varken (calcitonin). (various references)

Finnish		kalsitoniini, sika (calcitonin). (various references)

French		porcin. (various references)

German		Calcitonin, von Schwein (calcitonin). (various references)

Greek		χοιρινόσ. (various references)

Hebrew		חזירי (hoggish, piggish, porky, swinish). (various references)

Hungarian		sertés-, sertésszerű, disznószerű, disznó- (porky). (various references)

Italian		porcino (boletus, pore mushroom, yellow boletus), calcitonina, suina (calcitonin). (various references)

Manx		muickey (of a pig, pig), mucoil (hoggish, piggish, swinish). (various references)

Pig Latin		orcinepay

Portuguese		porcino (hoggish, porky), calcitonina, su'na (calcitonin), átrio (atrium, vestibule). (various references)

Romanian		porcin, porcesc (porky). (various references)

Russian		свинский (hoggish, piggish, swinish). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		poput svinje, svinjski (hoggish, piggish, pork, swinish). (various references)

Spanish		porcino, calcitonín, porcina (calcitonin). (various references)

Swedish		kalcitonin, svin (calcitonin), grisliknande, gris- (porky). (various references)

Turkish		domuza benzer, domuz gibi (hoggish, piggish, piglike, strong and healty, swinish), domuz (boar, grunter, hog, pig, pork, swine). (various references)

Ukrainian		свинячий (piggish, piggy). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Porcine

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	porcinus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: Porcine

Misspellings
	"Porcine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apocrine, Orciano, Paccione, paracone, Parchine, peccune, Pecinje, pericline, phocine, pocine, poncins, Ponrine, porci, porcin, porkie, Porkin, Porrini, procine, procini, promine, pursine, Purvine, pyocanea. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Porcine"

Words rhyming with "porcine" (pronounced 'Por"cine'): Brucine, Decine, Fuscine, hyoscine, internecine, Noctilucine, Oscine, Phocine, Picine, Piscine, Scolopacine, vaccine, Xanthopuccine. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Porcine

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-i-n-o-p-r"
	-1 letter: coiner, copier, crepon, orcein, orpine, pincer, prince, recoin.
	-2 letters: copen, coper, cripe, crone, irone, nicer, opine, orcin, orpin, ponce, price, prion, prone, recon, repin, ripen.
	-3 letters: cero, cine, cion, cire, coin, coir, cone, coni, cope, core, corn, crop, epic, icon, inro, iron, nice, noir, nope, nori, once, open, pein, peon, peri, pice, pier.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-i-n-o-p-r"
	+1 letter: apocrine, caponier, conspire, coprince, entropic, inceptor, incorpse, pecorini, pecorino, procaine, prochein, province, replicon.
	+2 letters: caponiers, compering, conspired, conspires, coopering, coppering, coprinces, inceptors, incorpsed, incorpses, inspector, intercrop, necropoli, nephrotic, pecorinos, porcelain, porcupine, precision, precoding, princedom, princoxes, procaines, pronuclei, proscenia, provinces, pyrogenic, pyroxenic, reception, recopying, recouping, replicons.
	+3 letters: censorship, choppering, compeering, complainer, coprisoner, decryption, encryption, excerption, hypersonic, hypertonic, importance, inspectors, intercrops, introspect, isentropic, microphone, necropolis, necropsied, necropsies, neotropics, nephrotics, nonreceipt, perception, percussion, perfection, pernicious, picarooned, porcelains, porcupines, pratincole, precaution, precession, precisions, preclusion, precooking, precooling, prediction, prelection, prescoring, princedoms, probenecid, proceeding, processing, procession, proficient, projecting, projection, prominence, pronephric, proscenium, prosecting, protecting, protection, providence, receptions, recoupling, saprogenic, scorpaenid, sporogenic, supersonic, supertonic, voiceprint, xenotropic.
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