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) IPA^(key): /ˈstruː.tʰi.oː/, [ˈs̠t̪ruːt̪ʰioː]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈstru.ti.o/, [ˈst̪ruːt̪io]

Noun

strūthiō m (genitive strūthiōnis); third declension

(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 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