motacilla

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Latin

Etymology

Unknown.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

mōtacilla f (genitive mōtacillae); first declension

  1. A kind of wagtail

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mōtacilla mōtacillae
Genitive mōtacillae mōtacillārum
Dative mōtacillae mōtacillīs
Accusative mōtacillam mōtacillās
Ablative mōtacillā mōtacillīs
Vocative mōtacilla mōtacillae

Descendants

  • Translingual: Motacilla

References

  • “motacilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • motacilla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “motacilla”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 115
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