merula

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Latin

Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-Italic *meselā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ems- (black, blackbird), which is thought to be a northwestern European substrate borrowing. Cognate with Breton moualch (ouzel), Welsh mwyalch (blackbird, thrush), German Amsel, English ouzel.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

merula f (genitive merulae); first declension

  1. blackbird
  2. wrasse

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative merula merulae
Genitive merulae merulārum
Dative merulae merulīs
Accusative merulam merulās
Ablative merulā merulīs
Vocative merula merulae

Descendants

References

  • merula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • merula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • merula 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)
  • merula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • merula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • merula”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • merula”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “merula”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 375-6