icterus

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See also: Icterus

English

Etymology

From the Latin icterus, from the Ancient Greek ἴκτερος (íkteros, “jaundice”).

Noun

icterus (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) An excess of bile pigments in the blood; jaundice.
  2. A yellowish appearance in plants.

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Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ἴκτερος (íkteros, “jaundice”, “a bird of a yellowish-green colour, perhaps the golden oriole”), of uncertain ultimate origin; possibly related to ἴκτις (íktis, “weasel”), ἴκτινος (íktinos), or of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

Noun

icterus m (genitive icterī); second declension

  1. a yellow bird, otherwise unknown, the sight of which was said to cure jaundice; perhaps loriot, golden oriole

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Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative icterus icterī
genitive icterī icterōrum
dative icterō icterīs
accusative icterum icterōs
ablative icterō icterīs
vocative ictere icterī

Descendants

  • English: icterus
  • German: Ikterus
  • Translingual: Icterus

References

  • “ictĕrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ictĕrus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 765/1.
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