sturnus
See also: Sturnus
Latin
Etymology
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
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈstur.nus/, [ˈs̠t̪ʊrnʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈstur.nus/, [ˈst̪urnus]
Noun
sturnus m (genitive sturnī); second declension
- starling
Declension
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
- → Albanian: shturë
- Italian: storno
- Sicilian: struneḍḍu
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Ladino: storno
- ⇒ Late Latin: sturnellus
- → Maltese: sturnell
- Old French: esturnel
- French: étourneau
- Old Occitan:
- Catalan: estornell
- Occitan: estornèl
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: sturnel
- Romansch: sturnel
- ⇒ Late Latin: sturnīnus
- Old Portuguese:
- Galician: estorniño, estornillo
- Portuguese: estorninho
- Old Spanish:
- Spanish: estornino
- Old Portuguese:
References
- “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