fringilla

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Latin

fringilla (a chaffinch, but see entry)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰereg- (“to make a noise, growl, bark”) (with the diminutive suffix -illa), from *bʰer- (“to drone, hum, buzz”). Cognate with English bark, Latin frigūtiō (“I chirp”), Lithuanian burgė́ti (“to growl, grumble, grouch, quarrel”) and Serbo-Croatian brgljati (“to murmur”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

fringilla f (genitive fringillae); first declension

  1. (Classical Latin) a small bird, possibly the robin or the chaffinch
  2. (New Latin) finch

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative fringilla fringillae
genitive fringillae fringillārum
dative fringillae fringillīs
accusative fringillam fringillās
ablative fringillā fringillīs
vocative fringilla fringillae

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Translingual: Fringilla
  • Italian: fringuello

References

  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “bhereg-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 138-139
  • “fringilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fringilla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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