sturnus
Appearance
See also: Sturnus
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *storo- (“starling”) or *(s)tern- (“starling”), same ultimate source as Old Prussian starnite (“gull”), English starling. Traditionally, perhaps spuriously, associated with Ancient Greek ψάρ (psár, “starling”), cognate with English sparrow through an etymon with similar sound.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈstur.nus/, [ˈs̠t̪ʊrnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈstur.nus/, [ˈst̪urnus]
Noun
[edit]sturnus m (genitive sturnī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | sturnus | sturnī |
genitive | sturnī | sturnōrum |
dative | sturnō | sturnīs |
accusative | sturnum | sturnōs |
ablative | sturnō | sturnīs |
vocative | sturne | sturnī |
Descendants
[edit]- Italo-Romance:
- North-Italian:
- ⇒ Late Latin: sturnellus
- ⇒ Late Latin: sturnīnus
- North-Italian:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Galician: estorniño, estornillo
- Portuguese: estorninho
- Spanish: estornino
- Borrowings:
References
[edit]- “sturnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sturnus 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)
- sturnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.