fringilla
See also: Fringilla
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *bʰereg- (“to make a noise, growl, bark”) (with the diminutive suffix -illa), from *bʰer- (“to drone, hum, buzz”). Cognate with English bark, Latin frigūtiō (“I chirp”), Lithuanian burgė́ti (“to growl, grumble, grouch, quarrel”) and Serbo-Croatian brgljati (“to murmur”).[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /frinˈɡil.la/, [frɪŋˈɡɪlːʲä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /frinˈd͡ʒil.la/, [frin̠ʲˈd͡ʒilːä]
Noun
editfringilla f (genitive fringillae); first declension
Declension
editFirst-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | fringilla | fringillae |
genitive | fringillae | fringillārum |
dative | fringillae | fringillīs |
accusative | fringillam | fringillās |
ablative | fringillā | fringillīs |
vocative | fringilla | fringillae |
Derived terms
edit- fringilla Canāria (“canary”)
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- Translingual: Fringilla
- Italian: fringuello
References
edit- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “bhereg-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 138-139
- “fringilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fringilla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.