passer

la-noun

passer m (genitive passeris); third declension

passeris (genitive)
passer (nominative singular)
passerēs (nominative plural)
passeris (genitive singular)
passerum (genitive plural)
passerī (dative singular)
passeribus (dative plural)
passerem (accusative singular)
passerēs (accusative plural)
passere (ablative singular)
passeribus (ablative plural)
passer (singular vocative)
passerēs (plural vocative)

Catalan: passerell, pàssera

Corsican: passula

Dalmatian: paserain

Esperanto: pasero

Franco-Provençal: pâsserâ

French: passereau

Friulian: passare, passarat

Ido: pasero

Interlingua: passere

Istro-Romanian: pǫsăre

Italian: passero, passera

Occitan: passerat

Romanian: pasăre

Romansch: pasler

Vulgar Latin:

*passarum (see there for further descendants)

From Proto-Italic *passros with a declension change from second to third, from Proto-Indo-European *p(e)t-tro-s (“who flies, bird”), from *peth₂- (“to fly”). Related to penna.

inh

Passer mortuus est meae puellae.
Passer, deliciae meae puellae […]

c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 3.3–4

My girl's sparrow is dead.
The sparrow, my girl's pet […]


corvus

la-noun

corvus m (genitive corvī); second declension

corvī (genitive)
corvus (nominative singular)
corvī (nominative plural)
corvī (genitive singular)
corvōrum (genitive plural)
corvō (dative singular)
corvīs (dative plural)
corvum (accusative singular)
corvōs (accusative plural)
corvō (ablative singular)
corvīs (ablative plural)
corve (singular vocative)
corvī (plural vocative)

Balkan Romance:

→ Albanian: korb

Aromanian: corbu

Istro-Romanian: corb

Megleno-Romanian: corb, cuărb

Romanian: corb

Italo-Romance:

Italian: corvo

Sicilian: corvu, corbu

Venetian: corvo, corf

Sardinian:

desc

Sardinian: colbu, crobu, colvu, corbu, corvu

Rhaeto-Romance:

⇒ Friulian: corvat

Ladin: corf

Romansch: corv

Gallo-Romance:

Catalan: corb

Old French: corf, corb, corp, crop

Old Occitan:

Occitan: còrb

Ibero-Romance:

Asturian: cuervu, cuorvu, cuirvu

desctree

Old Galician-Portuguese: corvo
Fala: colvu, corvu
Galician: corvo
Portuguese: corvo

Spanish: cuervo

⇒ Late Latin: corbellus, corvellus

Old French: corbel
Middle English: corbel
English: corbel
Middle French: corbeau
French: corbeau
→ English: corbie
→ Scots: corbie

→ Esperanto: korvo

→ English: corvus (learned)

→ Translingual: Corvus

From Proto-Italic *korwos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂wós, imitative of harsh sounds (compare Middle Irish crú, Lithuanian šárka (“magpie”), Serbo-Croatian svrȁka (“magpie”), Ancient Greek κόραξ (kórax), Old English hræfn), from *ḱer- (compare Latin crepō (“I creak, crack”), Sanskrit कृपते (kṛ́pate, “he laments, implores”)) + *-wós (whence Latin -vus).

onomatopoeic

imitative

cog

A raven; a bird associated with prophecy and sacred to Apollo.


pica

la-noun

pīca f (genitive pīcae); first declension

pīca (canonical feminine)
pīcae (genitive)
pīca (nominative singular)
pīcae (nominative plural)
pīcae (genitive singular)
pīcārum (genitive plural)
pīcae (dative singular)
pīcīs (dative plural)
pīcam (accusative singular)
pīcās (accusative plural)
pīcā (ablative singular)
pīcīs (ablative plural)
pīca (singular vocative)
pīcae (plural vocative)

⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pēca (dialectal or from Sabellic)

Asturian: pega

Galician: pega

Portuguese: pega

Spanish: pega

Catalan: piga (“freckle”)

Italian: pica

⇒ Norman: piêté

Occitan: piga

desc

⇒ Occitan: pigal, pigalha (“freckle”), pigasat (“pied, spotted, variegated”)

desctree

Old French: pie
→ Middle English: pye
English: pie (archaic), magpie
→ Welsh: piod pl, pioden sg
French: pie
Norman: pie (Jersey)

Sardinian: piga (Logudorian)

Sicilian: pica

q

⇒ Spanish: picaza (crossed with Germanic *agattjā (“magpie”))

→ Basque: mika

→ Breton: pig

→ Catalan: pica

→ English: pica

→ Irish: píoca

→ Esperanto: pigo

→ Ido: pigo

→? Scottish Gaelic: pioghaid

From Proto-Italic *peikā, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker; magpie”), whence also Latin pīcus (“woodpecker”).
Romance forms in -e- might reflect a different etymon, such as the Umbrian peico (acc.sg.), where the product of /ei/'s monophthongisation coincided with the latin /ē/. Cognate to Sanskrit पिक (piká, “cuckoo”), German Specht (“woodpecker”), Swedish spett (“crowbar, skewer; kind of woodpecker”).


hirundo

la-noun

hirundō f (genitive hirundinis); third declension

hirundō (canonical feminine)
hirundinis (genitive)
hirundō (nominative singular)
hirundinēs (nominative plural)
hirundinis (genitive singular)
hirundinum (genitive plural)
hirundinī (dative singular)
hirundinibus (dative plural)
hirundinem (accusative singular)
hirundinēs (accusative plural)
hirundine (ablative singular)
hirundinibus (ablative plural)
hirundō (singular vocative)
hirundinēs (plural vocative)

Balkan Romance:

Aromanian: alãndurã, lãndurã, rãndurã

Romanian: rândunea, rândunică

Dalmatian:

rondaina

Italo-Romance:

Italian: rondine, irondine

Sicilian: rìndina, rìnnina

North-Italian:

Gallo-Italic:

Ligurian: rondanìnn-a, róndoa, rondana

desc

Lombard: rondena, róndola, rondanena, rondanina

Piedmontese: ràndola, ròndola, róndola, róndora, randolina, rondorina, riondora, rondanina

Romansch: randulina, hirondella, irundeala

Venetian: róndena

Gallo-Romance:

Old French: aronde, arondelle

French: aronde

Norman: héthonde

Occitano-Romance:

Catalan: oreneta, oroneta, oronella

Old Occitan: irunda, ironda, irondela

Occitan: ironda, randoleta

→ French: hirondelle

Ibero-Romance:

Old Leonese: *andorina

Asturian andarina, alandrina, andolina

Leonese andolina

Mirandese andorina

Old Galician-Portuguese: andorỹa, andorinna

Galician: anduriña, andoriña

Portuguese: andorinha

Old Spanish: golondrina

Spanish: golondrina, andorina

Sardinian:

arrùndini

Borrowings:

→ Esperanto: hirundo

Possibly related to hirrio due to its sound, or related to harundo because of its forked tail. Compare Ancient Greek χελῑδών (khelīdṓn).


alauda

la-noun

alauda f (genitive alaudae); first declension

alaudae (genitive)
alauda (nominative singular)
alaudae (nominative plural)
alaudae (genitive singular)
alaudārum (genitive plural)
alaudae (dative singular)
alaudīs (dative plural)
alaudam (accusative singular)
alaudās (accusative plural)
alaudā (ablative singular)
alaudīs (ablative plural)
alauda (singular vocative)
alaudae (plural vocative)

Catalan: alosa, alova

Old French: aloe, aloel, aloëte

French: alouette, aloyau

Occitan: alauza, alauseta

Walloon: ålouwete, alôye

Vulgar Latin: *alaudula

Friulian: lodule, odule

Italian: allodola, lodola

Ladino: lodola

Romansch: lodola

Sardinian: allòdola

Spanish: alondra

Translingual: Alauda

[äˈɫ̪äu̯d̪ä]

[äˈläːu̯d̪ä]

Borrowed from Gaulish *alauda (“skylark”), literally "tuft." Compare Proto-Germanic *laiwarikǭ (“lark”), which could share a Celto-Germanic substratum.


fringilla

fringilla f (genitive fringillae); first declension

fringillae (genitive)
fringilla (nominative singular)
fringillae (nominative plural)
fringillae (genitive singular)
fringillārum (genitive plural)
fringillae (dative singular)
fringillīs (dative plural)
fringillam (accusative singular)
fringillās (accusative plural)
fringillā (ablative singular)
fringillīs (ablative plural)
fringilla (singular vocative)
fringillae (plural vocative)

Translingual: Fringilla

Italian: fringuello

[frɪŋˈɡɪlːʲä]

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰereg- (“to make a noise, growl, bark”) (with the diminutive suffix -illa), 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”).


cornicula

la-noun

cornīcula f (genitive cornīculae); first declension

cornīcula (canonical feminine)
cornīculae (genitive)
cornīcula (nominative singular)
cornīculae (nominative plural)
cornīculae (genitive singular)
cornīculārum (genitive plural)
cornīculae (dative singular)
cornīculīs (dative plural)
cornīculam (accusative singular)
cornīculās (accusative plural)
cornīculā (ablative singular)
cornīculīs (ablative plural)
cornīcula (singular vocative)
cornīculae (plural vocative)

via *cornĭcla:

Catalan: cornella

French: corneille

Galician: cornella

Spanish: corneja

via *cornacla:

Italian: cornacchia

[kɔrˈniːkʊɫ̪ä]

From cornīx f (“crow”) + -ula (diminutive suffix).


cornix

la-noun

cornīx f (genitive cornīcis); third declension

cornīx (canonical feminine)
cornīcis (genitive)
cornīx (nominative singular)
cornīcēs (nominative plural)
cornīcis (genitive singular)
cornīcum (genitive plural)
cornīcī (dative singular)
cornīcibus (dative plural)
cornīcem (accusative singular)
cornīcēs (accusative plural)
cornīce (ablative singular)
cornīcibus (ablative plural)
cornīx (singular vocative)
cornīcēs (plural vocative)

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂-, imitative of harsh sounds (compare Middle Irish crú, Lithuanian šárka (“magpie”), Serbo-Croatian svrȁka (“magpie”), Ancient Greek κόραξ (kórax)), from *ḱer- (compare Latin crepō (“I creak, crack”), Sanskrit कृपते (kṛ́pate, “he laments, implores”)).

onomatopoeic

imitative


sturnus

la-noun

sturnus m (genitive sturnī); second declension

sturnī (genitive)
sturnus (nominative singular)
sturnī (nominative plural)
sturnī (genitive singular)
sturnōrum (genitive plural)
sturnō (dative singular)
sturnīs (dative plural)
sturnum (accusative singular)
sturnōs (accusative plural)
sturnō (ablative singular)
sturnīs (ablative plural)
sturne (singular vocative)
sturnī (plural vocative)

→ 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 Galician-Portuguese:

Galician: estorniño, estornillo

Portuguese: estorninho

Old Spanish:

Spanish: estornino

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.


monedula

monēdula f (genitive monēdulae); first declension

monēdula (canonical feminine)
monēdulae (genitive)
monēdula (nominative singular)
monēdulae (nominative plural)
monēdulae (genitive singular)
monēdulārum (genitive plural)
monēdulae (dative singular)
monēdulīs (dative plural)
monēdulam (accusative singular)
monēdulās (accusative plural)
monēdulā (ablative singular)
monēdulīs (ablative plural)
monēdula (singular vocative)
monēdulae (plural vocative)

[mɔˈneːd̪ʊɫ̪ä]

Said to mean "money-eating," from monēta (“money”) + edo (“eat”) + -ula, connected to the greed of Arne of Thrace, but this has been dismissed as folk etymology.
The variant monerula is used by Plautus, displaying an Umbrian sound influence.


cassita

cassīta f (genitive cassītae); first declension

cassīta (canonical feminine)
cassītae (genitive)
cassīta (nominative singular)
cassītae (nominative plural)
cassītae (genitive singular)
cassītārum (genitive plural)
cassītae (dative singular)
cassītīs (dative plural)
cassītam (accusative singular)
cassītās (accusative plural)
cassītā (ablative singular)
cassītīs (ablative plural)
cassīta (singular vocative)
cassītae (plural vocative)

[käs̠ˈs̠iːt̪ä]


aegithus

aegithus m (genitive aegithī); second declension

aegithī (genitive)
aegithus (nominative singular)
aegithī (nominative plural)
aegithī (genitive singular)
aegithōrum (genitive plural)
aegithō (dative singular)
aegithīs (dative plural)
aegithum (accusative singular)
aegithōs (accusative plural)
aegithō (ablative singular)
aegithīs (ablative plural)
aegithe (singular vocative)
aegithī (plural vocative)

[ˈäe̯ɡɪt̪ʰʊs̠]

A kind of bird, perhaps the titmouse or the red linnet


aedon

aēdōn f (genitive aēdonis); third declension

aēdōn (canonical feminine)
aēdonis (genitive)
aēdōn (nominative singular)
aēdonēs (nominative plural)
aēdonis (genitive singular)
aēdonum (genitive plural)
aēdonī (dative singular)
aēdonibus (dative plural)
aēdonem (accusative singular)
aēdona (accusative singular)
aēdonēs (accusative plural)
aēdone (ablative singular)
aēdonibus (ablative plural)
aēdōn (singular vocative)
aēdonēs (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀηδών (aēdṓn).