turdus

See also: Turdus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *torzdos, from Proto-Indo-European *trosdos, whence also Russian дрозд (drozd), Old Church Slavonic дрозгу (drozgu), Welsh drudwy (“starling”), Middle Irish truid, and Lithuanian strazdas (“thrush”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtur.dus/, [ˈt̪ʊrd̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtur.dus/, [ˈt̪urd̪us]

Noun

turdus m (genitive turdī); second declension

1. thrush, fieldfare

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	turdus	turdī
Genitive	turdī	turdōrum
Dative	turdō	turdīs
Accusative	turdum	turdōs
Ablative	turdō	turdīs
Vocative	turde	turdī

Descendants

• Aromanian: sturdzu, strudz
• Asturian: tordu
• Catalan: tord
• ⇒ English: turdine, turdiform
• Friulian: dordei
• Galician: tordo
• Italian: tordo
• Occitan: tordre, tord
• Piedmontese: tord
• Portuguese: tordo
• Romanian: sturz
• Sicilian: turdu
• Spanish: tordo
• Translingual: Turdus
• Venetian: tordo

References

• “turdus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “turdus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• turdus 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)
• turdus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.