fringilla

See also: Fringilla

Latin
fringilla (a chaffinch, but see entry)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰereg- (“to make a noise, growl, bark”), from *bʰer- (“to drone, hum, buzz”). Cognate with English bark, Latin frigūtiō (“I chirp”), Lithuanian burgė́ti (“to growl, grumble, grouch, quarrel”) and Serbo-Croatian brgljati (“to murmur”)[1].

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /frinˈɡil.la/, [frɪŋˈɡɪl.la]

Noun

fringilla f (genitive fringillae); first declension

  1. a small bird, possibly the robin or the chaffinch

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fringilla fringillae
Genitive fringillae fringillārum
Dative fringillae fringillīs
Accusative fringillam fringillās
Ablative fringillā fringillīs
Vocative fringilla fringillae

Descendants

References
  • fringilla in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fringilla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959), “bhereg-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume I, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 138-139
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