vulturius

Latin

Alternative forms

• volturius

Etymology

From Old Latin voltur, most likely related to vello.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯ulˈtu.ri.us/, [u̯ʊɫ̪ˈt̪ʊriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vulˈtu.ri.us/, [vul̪ˈt̪uːrius]

Noun

vulturius m (genitive vulturiī or vulturī); second declension

1. vulture
2. a rapacious person
3. (dice games) an unlucky throw

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vulturius	vulturiī
Genitive	vulturiī vulturī1	vulturiōrum
Dative	vulturiō	vulturiīs
Accusative	vulturium	vulturiōs
Ablative	vulturiō	vulturiīs
Vocative	vulturie	vulturiī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Synonyms

• (vulture): vultur

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: vultur
  • Romanian: vultur
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: avvoltoio
    • → Venetian: avoltogio
  • Sicilian: vuturu, avuturu
• Padanian:
  • Ladin: valtoi
  • Piedmontese: votor
  • Venetian: voltor
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: vôtor
  • Old French: voltur, voutour
    • French: vautour
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: vüeitre, voitre, vuitre, vutre, güeitre
  • Catalan: voltor

    Occidental and Septentrional: volter

  • Occitan: voltor, voutor

    Gascon: votre, vutre, voltre, votèir, voter, voïtre

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: utra, utre, utru, uitre, utria, butre
  • Galician: voitre, vutre, voitor, abutre, voutre, bruite, brute, bruita
    • ⇒ voitirón, viturón, voitiró, voiturón
  • Old Spanish: boitre
    • Spanish: buitre
  • Portuguese: abutre

References

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