vultur

See also: Vultur

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• vulturu, vãltur, vãlturu, vãltor, vãltoru

Etymology

From Latin vultur or vulturius. Compare Romanian vultur.

Noun

vultur m (plural vulturi)

1. vulture
2. eagle

Synonyms

• Synonyms: ljipurar, ornji, aito, atsirã, utã, hutã, hutcã, stavrait, schiponj, schifter

Latin

Alternative forms

• voltur

Etymology

Probably from the same source as vellere (“to tear, pluck”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯ul.tur/, [ˈu̯ʊɫ̪t̪ʊr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvul.tur/, [ˈvul̪t̪ur]

Noun

vultur m (genitive vulturis); third declension

1. vulture

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vultur	vulturēs
genitive	vulturis	vulturum
dative	vulturī	vulturibus
accusative	vulturem	vulturēs
ablative	vulture	vulturibus
vocative	vultur	vulturēs

Synonyms

• (vulture): vulturius

Descendants

• Aromanian: vultur, vãltur
• Asturian: utre, butre, utra
• Catalan: voltor
• English: vulture
• French: vautour
• Italian: avvoltoio, vùlture
• Galician: voitre, butre
• Ladin: valtoi
• Occitan: voltre, voltor, voutor
• Portuguese: abutre
• Romanian: vultur
• Sicilian: vuturu, avuturu
• Spanish: buitre
• Venetan: voltor

References

• “vultur”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vultur”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Old French

Noun

vultur oblique singular, m (oblique plural vulturs, nominative singular vulturs, nominative plural vultur)

1. Alternative form of voutoir

References

• vultur on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Romanian

Alternative forms

• vulture, hultur, hulture

Etymology

Inherited from Latin vultur, vulturem (“vulture”) or vulturius. The standard pronunciation has the accent on the first syllable, but there is a variant with it on the second.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvultur], [vulˈtur]

Noun

vultur m (plural vulturi)

1. accipitrid
   1. vulture
   2. buzzard
   3. eagle
   4. kite
   5. harrier
2. (figuratively) a brave, admirable man

Declension

Declension of vultur

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	vultur	vulturul		vulturi	vulturii
genitive-dative	vultur	vulturului		vulturi	vulturilor
vocative	vulturule			vulturilor

See also

• aceră
• acvilă
• pajură

Volapük

Noun

vultur (nominative plural vulturs)

1. vulture

Declension

Declension of vultur

	singular	plural
nominative	vultur	vulturs
genitive	vultura	vulturas
dative	vulture	vultures
accusative	vulturi	vulturis
vocative 1	o vultur!	o vulturs!
predicative 2	vulturu	vulturus

¹ status as a case is disputed
² in later, non-classical Volapük only