carduelis

See also: Carduelis

Latin

Etymology

From carduus (“wild thistle, artichoke”) +‎ -ēlis. Goldfinches commonly eat thistle seeds and use thistle down as nest material, and are as such commonly named after this plant; compare English thistlefinch, Dutch distelvink.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kar.duˈeː.lis/, [kärd̪uˈeːlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kar.duˈe.lis/, [kärd̪uˈɛːlis]

Noun

carduēlis f (genitive carduēlis); third declension

1. a thistlefinch, Eurasian goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	carduēlis	carduēlēs
genitive	carduēlis	carduēlium
dative	carduēlī	carduēlibus
accusative	carduēlem	carduēlēs carduēlīs
ablative	carduēle	carduēlibus
vocative	carduēlis	carduēlēs

Descendants

• Translingual: Carduelis

References

• “carduelis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press