struthio

See also: Struthio

Latin

strūthiōnēs (ostriches)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek στρουθίων (strouthíōn); or shortened from strūthiocamēlus, from Ancient Greek στρουθιοκάμηλος (strouthiokámēlos), from στρουθός (strouthós, “sparrow”) + κάμηλος (kámēlos, “camel”). The first element of both Greek words is likely related to Latin turdus (“thrush”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈstruː.tʰi.oː/, [ˈs̠t̪ruːt̪ʰioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈstru.ti.o/, [ˈst̪ruːt̪io]

Noun

strūthiō m (genitive strūthiōnis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) ostrich

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	strūthiō	strūthiōnēs
Genitive	strūthiōnis	strūthiōnum
Dative	strūthiōnī	strūthiōnibus
Accusative	strūthiōnem	strūthiōnēs
Ablative	strūthiōne	strūthiōnibus
Vocative	strūthiō	strūthiōnēs

Synonyms

• (ostrich): strūthiocamēlus

Related terms

• strūtheus
• strūthiocamēlinus
• strūthiocamēlus

Descendants

• Italian: struzzo
  • → Hungarian: strucc
  • → Romanian: struț
• Megleno-Romanian: ştruş
• Old Occitan: estrutz
  • Catalan: estruç
  • Occitan: estruci
  • → Old Galician-Portuguese: estruz
    • ⇒ Galician: avestruz (ave 'bird' + estruz)
    • ⇒ Portuguese: avestruz
  • → Old Spanish: estruz
    • ⇒ Spanish: avestruz
      • → Asturian: avestruz
• Piedmontese: struss
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *austrūthiō (avis 'bird' + strūthiō)
  • Old French: ostruce
    • French: autruche
    • Norman: autruche
    • → Middle English: ostrich, ostriche, ostrige, ostryche
      • English: ostrich
      • Scots: ostriche (obsolete)
      • → Welsh: estrys
• → Proto-West Germanic: *strūcijō (see there for further descendants)
• → Translingual: Struthio

References

• “struthio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• struthio 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)
• struthio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.