graculus

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Latin

Etymology

From *grācō +‎ -ulus, from a Proto-Indo-European root *grāk-, related to *gerh₂- (“to cry hoarsely”), ultimately likely onomatopoeic.

Compare Proto-Slavic *grakati (“to croak”) and in the Germanic branch English croak and Old Norse krákr (“crow”), kráka (“raven”).

Pronunciation

Noun

grāculus m (genitive grāculī); second declension

  1. jackdaw

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative grāculus grāculī
genitive grāculī grāculōrum
dative grāculō grāculīs
accusative grāculum grāculōs
ablative grāculō grāculīs
vocative grācule grāculī

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: gracchio
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • ⇒ Late Latin: grāulus
  • Borrowings:

References

  1. ^ “grackle”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
  2. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “grāculus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 268
  • “graculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “graculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • graculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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