hirundo
See also: Hirundo
Esperanto edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hirundo (accusative singular hirundon, plural hirundoj, accusative plural hirundojn)
Ido edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Esperanto hirundo, Latin hirundō, French hirondelle, Italian irondine, Spanish golondrina.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hirundo (plural hirundi)
- swallow (bird)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Possibly related to hirrio due to its sound, or related to harundo because of its forked tail. Compare Ancient Greek χελῑδών (khelīdṓn).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /hiˈrun.doː/, [hɪˈrʊn̪d̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /iˈrun.do/, [iˈrun̪d̪o]
Noun edit
hirundō f (genitive hirundinis); third declension
- swallow (bird)
- flying fish (sea-swallow)
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | hirundō | hirundinēs |
Genitive | hirundinis | hirundinum |
Dative | hirundinī | hirundinibus |
Accusative | hirundinem | hirundinēs |
Ablative | hirundine | hirundinibus |
Vocative | hirundō | hirundinēs |
Descendants edit
- Balkan Romance:
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- North-Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Occitano-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Sardinian:
- Borrowings:
- → Esperanto: hirundo
References edit
- “hirundo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “hirundo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- hirundo 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)
- hirundo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.