vireo

English

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Etymology

From translingual Vireo (genus name), from Latin vireō (“I am green”).

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Noun

vireo (plural vireos or vireoes)

1. Any of a number of small insectivorous passerine birds, of the genus Vireo, that have grey-green plumage.
   • 1998, Sally Roth, Attracting Birds to Your Backyard, page 257:

     The voices of male vireos are a constant in the spring woodland, providing background music to the longer, prettier songs of tanagers and thrushes. Vireos tend to sing in bursts interrupted by short or long pauses.

   • 2007, Jonathan Elphick, The Atlas of Bird Migration: Tracing the Great Journeys of the World's Birds, page 72:

     Uniquely American, the vireos are a group of some 46 foliage-gleaning forest birds with uncertain family connections. Vireo species are about equally divided between North and South America, with one, the Black-whiskered Vireo, largely restricted to the West Indies. Several vireos make long migratory journeys; all are nocturnal migrants.

   • 2012, Eloise Potter, Birds of the Carolinas, Easyread Large Edition, page 94,

     This is our only vireo that has two white wing bars, yellow spectacles, and yellow sides.

2. Any bird of the family Vireonidae, which includes vireos, shrike-vireos, greenlets, and peppershrikes.
   • 1950, Ernest Sheldon Booth, Birds of the West, page 282:

     Family Vireonidae
     Vireos
     The vireos are slim grayish green birds that stay high up in the trees most of the time.

Usage notes

The alternative plural form vireoes appears to be relatively rare and dated.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• Vireo (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Vireo on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Vireo on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Finnish

Etymology

From translingual Vireo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋireo/,
• Rhymes: -ireo
• Syllabification^(key): vi‧re‧o

Noun

vireo

1. vireo (bird of the genus Vireo)

Declension

Derived terms

Anagrams

• viero

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯i.re.oː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.re.o/,

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *wizēō, from Proto-Indo-European *wiséh₁yeti, from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to increase”). See also Old English wise (“stalk, sprout”), Old Norse visir (“sprout, bud”), Lithuanian veisti (“propagate”).

Verb

vireō (present infinitive virēre, perfect active viruī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

1. to be verdant, green; to sprout new green growth
2. to flourish; to be lively, vigorous

Conjugation

Derived terms

• virectum
• viridis
• viror

Etymology 2

Noun

vireō m (genitive vireōnis); third declension

1. a bird, probably the greenfinch

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• → English: vireo

References

• “vireo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vireo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vireo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) bodily strength: vires corporis or merely vires
    
  • (ambiguous) to gain strength: vires colligere
    
  • (ambiguous) to lose strength: vires aliquem deficiunt
    
  • (ambiguous) as long as one's strength holds out: dum vires suppetunt
    
  • (ambiguous) to become old and feeble: vires consenescunt