I’d like to know what “stegosaurus” would be in Russian, and how that would be spelled in cyrillic. Can anyone help me out?
My PDA’s Russian-English dictionary says стегозавр.
My big honkin’ Russian dictionary of doom doesn’t have that particular word, but “dinosaur” is динозавр, so стегозавр sounds about right.
Thanks a lot. I’m looking to capitalize it, and I know where I can find a table of the cyrillic alphabet, but does anyone know if there are some rules that need to be followed, or is it just an upper case/lower case issue? With the Roman alphabet I can go from a to A, but does the same hold for Cyrillic?
ie, would it be СТЕГОЗАВР?
Considering that these were paired with their lower case analogues, it seems like I answered my own question. Whatever the case, am I right?
That would be the all-caps version, yes.
Yes. Unlike the Latin alphabet (and is this one thing it has going for it), Cyrillic uppercase and lowercase letters (when not italicized) look almost exactly alike. The only exceptions I can think of are Е/е, and Ё/ё. If you get into italics, they start looking different (e.g. И/и, Д/д, and Т/т).
Presuming you mean an initial capital, the C/c relationship holds for Cyrillic as well. In fact, I think all the letters in стегозавр either follow Roman-alphabet capitalization rules or are simply the lowercase symbol larger as a Cyrillic uppercase letter. (BTW, note that the word is pronounced styeg-aw-savr, probably accented on the first syllable as in English.)
Yes you are - Russian upper/lower case works pretty much like English, except that there are a couple of letters that don’t ever appear as initial capitals (ь and ъ, “soft sign” and “hard sign”) because they only modify the preceding letter; they’d still be capitalized in ALL CAPS text, though.
FYI: the best online Rus-Eng/Eng-Rus dictionary (and one of the best online bilingual dictionaries period) is www.multitran.ru. It has obscure stuff you’ll never find in a general dictionary.
slight correction - accent is on the last syllable: styeg-ah-ZAvr
I was just about to come back and ask for help with sounding that out too. Thanks a lot, guys. You’ve been a great help.
In case you’re wondering, a stegosaurus is an in-joke among me and some of my friends. Tonight I was mulling over the idea of drawing one in the style of Soviet-era propaganda posters.
It’s unfortunate that I don’t have much experience drawing like that.