hirundo

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See also: Hirundo

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin hirundō.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -undo
  • Hyphenation: hi‧run‧do

Noun

hirundo (accusative singular hirundon, plural hirundoj, accusative plural hirundojn)

  1. swallow (bird)
    Hyponyms: hirundido (“young swallow”), hirundino (“female swallow”)

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto hirundo, Latin hirundō, French hirondelle, Italian irondine, Spanish golondrina.

Pronunciation

Noun

hirundo (plural hirundi)

  1. swallow (bird)
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Latin

Etymology

Possibly related to hirrio due to its sound, or related to harundo because of its forked tail. Compare Ancient Greek χελῑδών (khelīdṓn).

Pronunciation

Noun

hirundō f (genitive hirundinis); third declension

  1. swallow (bird)
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.853–854:
      Fallimur, an vēris praenūntia venit hirundō
      nec metuit, nē quā versa recurrat hiems?
      Am I mistaken, or has the swallow come, the herald of spring,
      and does she not fear winter will turn and come again?
  2. flying fish (sea-swallow)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative hirundō hirundinēs
genitive hirundinis hirundinum
dative hirundinī hirundinibus
accusative hirundinem hirundinēs
ablative hirundine hirundinibus
vocative hirundō hirundinēs

Descendants

References

  • “hirundo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “hirundo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • hirundo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • hirundo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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