trochilus

See also: Trochilus

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Latin trochilus (“a kind of small bird”), from Ancient Greek τροχίλος (trokhílos), from τρέχω (trékhō, “to run”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɒkɪləs/

Noun

trochilus (plural trochiluses or trochili)

1. (zoology) Any member of the hummingbird genus Trochilus.
2. (architecture) An annular moulding whose section is concave, like the edge of a pulley; a scotia.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “trochilus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τροχίλος (trokhílos), from τρέχω (trékhō).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtro.kʰi.lus/, [ˈt̪rɔkʰɪɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtro.ki.lus/, [ˈt̪rɔːkilus]

Noun

trochilus m (genitive trochilī); second declension

1. A kind of small bird
2. (architecture) trochilus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	trochilus	trochilī
genitive	trochilī	trochilōrum
dative	trochilō	trochilīs
accusative	trochilum	trochilōs
ablative	trochilō	trochilīs
vocative	trochile	trochilī

References

• “trochilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• trochilus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.