turdus

See also: Turdus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *torzdos, from Proto-Indo-European *trosdos, whence also Russian дрозд (drozd), Old Church Slavonic дрозгу (drozgu), Welsh drudwy (“starling”), Middle Irish truid, and Lithuanian strazdas (“thrush”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtʊr.dʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪ur.d̪us]

Noun

turdus m (genitive turdī); second declension

thrush, fieldfare

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	turdus	turdī
genitive	turdī	turdōrum
dative	turdō	turdīs
accusative	turdum	turdōs
ablative	turdō	turdīs
vocative	turde	turdī

Descendants

Aromanian: sturdzu, strudz
Asturian: tordu
Catalan: tord
⇒ English: turdine, turdiform
Friulian: dordei
Galician: tordo
Italian: tordo
Occitan: tordre, tord
Piedmontese: tord
Portuguese: tordo
Romanian: sturz
Sicilian: turdu
Spanish: tordo
Translingual: Turdus
Venetan: tordo

References

“turdus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“turdus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"turdus", 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)
turdus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.