turdus

See also: Turdus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *torzdos, from Proto-Indo-European *trosdos, whence also Russian дрозд (drozd), Old Church Slavonic дрозгу (drozgu), Welsh drudwy (“starling”), Middle Irish truid, and Lithuanian strazdas (“thrush”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtʊr.dʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtur.dus]

Noun

turdus m (genitive turdī); second declension

1. thrush, fieldfare
   • 20 BCE – 14 BCE, Horatius, Epistulae I.XV:

     Nīl melius turdō, nīl vulvā pulchrius amplā.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	turdus	turdī
genitive	turdī	turdōrum
dative	turdō	turdīs
accusative	turdum	turdōs
ablative	turdō	turdīs
vocative	turde	turdī

Descendants

• Aromanian: sturdzu, strudz
• Asturian: tordu
• Catalan: tord
• Emilian: tåurd
• ⇒ English: turdine, turdiform
• Friulian: dordei
• Galician: tordo
• Italian: tordo
• Occitan: tordre, tord
• Piedmontese: tord
• Portuguese: tordo
• Romanian: sturz
• Sicilian: turdu
• Spanish: tordo
• Translingual: Turdus
• Venetan: tordo

References

• “turdus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “turdus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "turdus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “turdus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.