carduelis
Appearance
See also: Carduelis
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From carduus (“wild thistle, artichoke”). 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
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kar.duˈeː.lis/, [kärd̪uˈeːlʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kar.duˈe.lis/, [kärd̪uˈɛːlis]
Noun
[edit]carduēlis f (genitive carduēlis); third declension
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun (i-stem).
singular | plural | |
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nominative | carduēlis | carduēlēs |
genitive | carduēlis | carduēlium |
dative | carduēlī | carduēlibus |
accusative | carduēlem | carduēlēs carduēlīs |
ablative | carduēle | carduēlibus |
vocative | carduēlis | carduēlēs |
Descendants
[edit]- Translingual: Carduelis
References
[edit]- “carduelis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press