See also: Fringilla

Latin edit

 
fringilla (a chaffinch, but see entry)

Etymology edit

From 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

Noun edit

fringilla f (genitive fringillae); first declension

  1. (Classical Latin) a small bird, possibly the robin or the chaffinch
  2. (New Latin) finch

Declension edit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fringilla fringillae
Genitive fringillae fringillārum
Dative fringillae fringillīs
Accusative fringillam fringillās
Ablative fringillā fringillīs
Vocative fringilla fringillae

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Translingual: Fringilla
  • Italian: fringuello

References edit

  1. ^ 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.