cardinal

en-noun

cardinal (countable and uncountable, plural cardinals)

From Middle French cardinal, from Latin cardinālis (“pertaining to a hinge, hence applied to that on which something turns or depends, important, principal, chief”), from cardin-, cardō (“hinge”) + -ālis, adjectival suffix.

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Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 168:

Any of various species of New-World passerine songbird in the genus Cardinalis, or in the family Cardinalidae more generally, or of similar appearance and once considered to be related to the former; so called because of their red plumage. (See Wikipedia article for taxonomical information.)

кардинал

bird of the genus Cardinalis or family Cardinalidae


pope

Jamaican Creole: puop

Tok Pisin: pop

→ Hindi: पोप (pop)

→ Urdu: پوپ (pop)

From Middle English pope, popa, from Old English pāpa, from Vulgar Latin papa (title for priests and bishops, esp. and by 8th c. only the bishop of Rome), from early Byzantine Greek παπᾶς (papâs, title for priests and bishops, especially by 3rd c. the bishop of Alexandria), from late Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas, title for priests and bishops, in the sense of spiritual father), from πάππας (páppas, “papa, daddy”).

do not sit in Rome and strive with the Pope

(Roman Catholicism and generally) An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.

(US, obsolete) Pope Day, the present Guy Fawkes Day.


pope

en-verb

pope (third-person singular simple present popes, present participle poping, simple past and past participle poped)

popes (present singular third-person)
poping (participle present)
poped (participle past)
poped (past)
Pope (alternative)

I'm not going to ‘Pope’ until after the war (if I'm alive).

c. 1916, in Evelyn Waugh's Life R. Knox (1959), ii. i. 142

A prominent Anglican priest had, to use the term generally employed on these occasions, ‘Poped’—that is, left the Church of England in order to become a Roman Catholic.

(intransitive, colloquial) To convert to Roman Catholicism.


bunting

en-noun

bunting (countable and uncountable, plural buntings)

(obsolete) An old boys' game, played with sticks and a small piece of wood.


nonpareil

en-adj

nonpareil (comparative more nonpareil, superlative most nonpareil)

more nonpareil (comparative)
most nonpareil (superlative)
non-pareil (alternative)

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/ˌnɑnpəˈɹɛl/

From Late Middle English non-parail (“unparalleled, nonpareil”) [and other forms], from Middle French nonpareille, nonpareil (“unparalleled”) (obsolete), from non- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + pareil (“alike, like, same”). Pareil is derived from Old French pareil, from Late Latin pāriculus (“equal; like; of a number: even”), from Latin pār (“equal; like; of a number: even; suitable”) + -culus (a variant of -ulus (suffix forming diminutives)). Doublet of umpire.
Noun sense 4 (size of type standardized at 6-point) is usually taken to derive from the attractive type cut by the brothers Giovanni and Gregorio De Gregori (fl. 1482–1503 and 1496–1527 respectively) for their 1498 edition of the divine offices in Venice; it was for a long time the smallest-sized type in use.

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nonparaille, nonpareyl, nounparalle, nowimparaile

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He informed the clerk that he would remain three or four days, inquired concerning the sailing of European steamships, and sank into the blissful inanition of the nonpareil hotel with the contented air of a traveller in his favorite inn.

1919, O. Henry, “Transients in Arcadia”, in The Voice of the City:

A veritable artist, possessed of a deftness nonpareil with cotton swab and evacuation-hypo, the medical attaché is known among the shrinking upper classes of petro-Arab nations as the DeBakey of maxillofacial yeast […]

1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 33:

[…]the series stars Samantha Morton as Margaret Wells, a London brothel owner; Ms. Brown Findlay as Charlotte, her older daughter and the city’s courtesan nonpareil; […]

2017 March 22, Kathryn Shattuck, “‘Harlots,’ on Hulu, Has Sex. But Settle Down, Guys.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(frequently postpositive) Unequalled, unrivalled; unique.

無儔 /无俦

unequalled, unrivalled — see also unequalled, unique, unrivalled


nonpareil

en-noun

nonpareil (countable and uncountable, plural nonpareils)

nonpareils (plural)
non-pareil (alternative)
nonparella (alternative)
nonpareillo (alternative)

/ˌnɑnpəˈɹɛl/

Platycercus eximius
Platycercus eximius#Translingual

(chiefly Australia, archaic) In full nonpareil parrot: an eastern rosella, of species Platycercus eximius, a rosella (parrot) native to southeastern Australia.

(chiefly US) A painted bunting (Passerina ciris), a brightly-coloured finch native to North America.

I believe that letters which are less than a millimetre and a half (1/17 inch) high, will finally prove injurious to the eye. How little attention has hitherto been paid to this important subject is exemplified in the fact that even oculistic journals and books frequently contain nonpareil, or letters only a millimetre (1/25 inch) high.

1881 May 19, Hermann Cohn, “Eyes and School-Books”, in Popular Science Monthly:

A Handbook of Astronomy (cover, brown leather, detached, 5 plates, antique letterpress long primer, author’s footnotes nonpareil, marginal clues brevier, captions small pica).

1922 February, James Joyce, “[17]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

(uncountable, typography, chiefly historical) A size of type between ruby and emerald (or, in the United States, between agate and minion), standardized as 6-point; (countable) a slug of this size.

nonparej

size of type standardized at 6-point; slug of this size


indigo bunting

A blue bunting of North America (Passerina cyanea).


grosbeak

/ˈɡɹəʊz.bɪk/

A partial calque of French gros-bec, gros (“big”) + bec (“beak”).

Any of several finches and cardinals that have a large, powerful bill


tanager

/ˈtænəd͡ʒə(ɹ)/

From translingual Tanagra, from Portuguese tangara, from Old Tupi tangara.

I’m remembering that time when there was a mourning warbler on that chip path 15 years ago and I remember the scarlet tanagers last week. That’s what I think about when I’m in the park.

2023 June 19, Morgan Jerkins, quoting Christian Cooper, “‘She doesn’t have the power’: Central Park birdwatcher Christian Cooper on why racist ‘incident’ won’t define him”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Any of numerous species of often colorful passerine birds that inhabit New World forests within the family Thraupidae.


redbird

red tanager
red tanager#English:_Q1587905

(Canada, US) Any of several unrelated American songbirds having red plumage.

northern cardinal
northern cardinal#English:_Q726389

Any of various red cars formerly used in the New York City subway system; or a train of such cars.


pyrrhuloxia

/ˌpɪɹəˈlɒksiə/

From translingual former genus name, Pyrrhuloxia.

Cardinalis sinuatus (desert cardinal), a North American bird with grey and red plumage


firebird

From fire + bird, so called because of their bright red or orange plumage.

A scarlet tanager, Piranga olivacea. (This species is now classified as belonging to the cardinal family: Cardinalidae)


painted bunting

painted bunting (plural painted buntings)


seedeater

Any bird in the genus Sporophila of the tanager family, Thraupidae


saltator

Borrowed from the genus name, translingual Saltator, borrowed from Latin saltātor (“dancer”).

One of several passerine birds in the genus Saltator.


dickcissel

But it is as a destroyer of grasshoppers that the dickcissel excels.

1901, Sylvester D. Judd, The Relation of Sparrows to Agriculture, page 91:

The American black-throated bunting (Spiza americana).


cardinalid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Cardinalidae.


scarlet tanager

scarlet tanager (plural scarlet tanagers)

Piranga olivacea, a medium-sized American songbird. Adult males are crimson-red with black wings and tail.


northern cardinal

northern cardinal (plural northern cardinals)

Cardinalis cardinalis, a North American songbird with a distinctive crest on the head and a mask on the face. The male is a vibrant red, while the female is a dull reddish olive.


summer tanager

Piranga rubra, a medium-sized American songbird.


rose-breasted grosbeak

rose-breasted grosbeak (plural rose-breasted grosbeaks)

Pheucticus ludovicianus
Pheucticus ludovicianus#Translingual

Pheucticus ludovicianus, a large, seed-eating grosbeak in the cardinal family (Cardinalidae).


black-backed grosbeak

black-backed grosbeak (plural black-backed grosbeaks)

A small bird native to South America, Pheucticus aureoventris


Chinese grosbeak

Chinese grosbeak (plural Chinese grosbeaks)


black-tailed hawfinch

black-tailed hawfinch (plural black-tailed hawfinches)


yellow-billed grosbeak

yellow-billed grosbeak (plural yellow-billed grosbeaks)


hepatic tanager

hepatic tanager (plural hepatic tanagers)

A bird native to the Americas, Piranga flava


golden-billed saltator

golden-billed saltator (plural golden-billed saltators)

From golden + billed + saltator, calque of translingual Saltator aurantiirostris.

calque

Saltator aurantiirostris, a species of cardinalid bird found in parts of South America.


black-headed saltator

en-noun

black-headed saltator (plural black-headed saltators)

black + headed + saltator, a calque of translingual Saltator atriceps.

calque

Saltator atriceps, a species of tanager.


blue-black grosbeak

en-noun

blue-black grosbeak (plural blue-black grosbeaks)

From blue + black + grosbeak, possibly a partial calque of translingual Cyanoloxia cyanoides (or the synonyms thereof), using the specific epithet of cyanoides (“like cyan”), from κῠ́ᾰνος (kŭ́ănos, “dark blue”), though improbable.

partial calque

Any bird of the species Cyanoloxia cyanoides, a deep blue and black-colored cardinalid found from southern Mexico down to northern South America.