Colorless frog was as big as a bowling loop (Interconnected Manipulation, Feb. 18, 2008):A frog the portliness of a bowling loop, with pouring husk and teeth, lived in the course of dinosaurs millions of time ago -- intimidating satisfactory that scientists who unearthed its fossils dubbed the beast Beelzebufo, or Mischievous sprite Toad....The name comes from the Greek word for devil, Beelzebub, and Latin for toad, bufo (illustrious boo-foe).Of course Beelzebub, even as it occurs in Greek, is not a "Greek" word, any excellent than it is an "English" word sympathetically like it occurs in English. But the high-quality portmanteau word Beelzebufo is an occupy name, an aptronym, for a type of frog.
Beelzebub was in the beginning the name of a Philistine deity. I'm out of my federation in the neighborhood, but some the system, e.g. Bauer-Arndt-Gingrich-Danker, "A Greek-English Phrase book of the New Gravestone and Considerably Rapid Christian Journalism", say that the name method "Member of the aristocracy of Flies." Such a name is occupy for frogs, which eat flies.
Frogs retain as well been widely linked with devils. "Compose calls," says one of the witches in Shakespeare's "Macbeth". A "enclosure" is a frog or toad.
Hat tip: Jim K.
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