vultur
See also: Vultur
Aromanian
Alternative forms
- vãltor, vulturu, vãlturu
Etymology
From Latin vultur or vulturius. Compare Daco-Romanian vultur.
Noun
vultur
- vulture
- eagle
See also
- aito, ornji, utã, schifter, stavrait, schiponjiu
Latin
Alternative forms
- voltur
Etymology
Probably from the same source as vellere (“to tear, pluck”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈwul.tur/, [ˈwʊɫ.tʊr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvul.tur/
Noun
vultur m (genitive vulturis); third declension
- vulture
Inflection
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | vultur | vulturēs |
| Genitive | vulturis | vulturum |
| Dative | vulturī | vulturibus |
| Accusative | vulturem | vulturēs |
| Ablative | vulture | vulturibus |
| Vocative | vultur | vulturēs |
Synonyms
- (vulture): vulturius
Descendants
- Aromanian: vultur, vãltor
- Asturian: utre, butre, utra
- Catalan: voltor
- English: vulture
- French: vautour
- Italian: avvoltoio
- Galician: voitre
- Ladin: valtoi
- Mozarabic: bóqtore
- Occitan: voltre, voltor, voutor
- Portuguese: abutre
- Romanian: vultur
- Sicilian: vuturu, avuturu
- Spanish: buitre
- Venetian: voltor
References
- vultur in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vultur in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Old French
Noun
vultur m (oblique plural vulturs, nominative singular vulturs, nominative plural vultur)
- Alternative form of voutoir
References
- vultur on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Romanian
Alternative forms
- vulture, hultur, hulture
Etymology
From Latin vultur, vulturem (“vulture”) or vulturius. The standard pronunciation has the accent on the first syllable, but there is a variant with it on the second.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈvultur], [vulˈtur]
Noun
vultur m (plural vulturi)
- accipitrid
- vulture
- buzzard
- eagle
- kite
- harrier
- (figuratively) a brave, admirable man
Declension
declension of vultur
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) vultur | vulturul | (niște) vulturi | vulturii |
| genitive/dative | (unui) vultur | vulturului | (unor) vulturi | vulturilor |
| vocative | vulturule | vulturilor | ||
See also
- aceră
- acvilă
- pajură
Volapük
Noun
vultur (plural vulturs)
- vulture
Declension
declension of vultur
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | vultur | vulturs |
| genitive | vultura | vulturas |
| dative | vulture | vultures |
| accusative | vulturi | vulturis |
| vocative 1 | o vultur! | o vulturs! |
| predicative 2 | vulturu | vulturus |
- 1 status as a case is disputed
- 2 in some later, non-classical Volapük only