murmurate

English

Verb

murmurate (third-person singular simple present murmurates, present participle murmurating, simple past and past participle murmurated)

  1. (intransitive) Of starlings, to gather in large flocks at dusk.
    • 2009, Daniel Butler, The mathematics of murmurating starlings, The Telegraph:
      By dusk this murmurating cloud can number thousands or even millions of birds.
    • 2013, Ruth Bass, Word playing gives birds new nicknames, The Berkshire Eagle:
      There's a glister of goldfinches, an exaltation of larks, a swoop of swallows, a chain of bobolinks, a scold of blue jays, a murmuration of starlings, which are at their best when they murmurate by the hundreds across a gray sky.

Esperanto

Adverb

murmurate

  1. present adverbial passive participle of murmuri

Latin

Participle

murmurāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of murmurātus
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