sturnus
See also: Sturnus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *storo- (“starling”) or *(s)tern- (“starling”), same ultimate source as Old Prussian starnite (“gull”), English starling. Traditionally, perhaps spuriously, associated with Ancient Greek ψάρ (psár, “starling”), cognate with English sparrow through an etymon with similar sound.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈstur.nus/, [ˈs̠t̪ʊrnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈstur.nus/, [ˈst̪urnus]
Noun edit
sturnus m (genitive sturnī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | sturnus | sturnī |
| Genitive | sturnī | sturnōrum |
| Dative | sturnō | sturnīs |
| Accusative | sturnum | sturnōs |
| Ablative | sturnō | sturnīs |
| Vocative | sturne | sturnī |
Descendants edit
- → Albanian: shturë
- Italian: storno
- Sicilian: struneḍḍu
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Ladino: storno
- ⇒ Late Latin: sturnellus
- ⇒ Late Latin: sturnīnus
- Old Galician-Portuguese:
- Galician: estorniño, estornillo
- Portuguese: estorninho
- Old Spanish:
- Spanish: estornino
- Old Galician-Portuguese:
References edit
- “sturnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sturnus 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)
- sturnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette