linnet

See also: Linnet

English

A linnet

Etymology

From Old French linette, from lin (“flax”), from the bird's fondness for the seeds of flax, the source of linen and Old English līnete, līnetwige (“linnet”) (> dialectal English lintwhite).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪnɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪnɪt

Noun

linnet (plural linnets)

1. A small passerine bird, the common linnet (Linaria cannabina, syn. Carduelis cannabina), in the finch family Fringillidae, native to Europe, western Asia, and north Africa.
   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXI, page 36:

     ⁠I do but sing because I must,
     And pipe but as the linnets sing:
     And unto one her note is gay,
     ⁠For now her little ones have ranged;
     ⁠And unto one her note is changed,
     Because her brood is stol’n away.

   • 1890, Robert Bridges, The Shorter Poems of Robert Bridges, Book I, V:

     I heard a linnet courting
     His lady in the spring […]

2. (US) A house finch (Haemorhous mexicanus), of North America.

Synonyms

• (common linnet et al): lintwhite (archaic)

Derived terms

• common linnet (Linaria cannabina, syn. Carduelis cannabina)
• green linnet
• Warsangli linnet (Linaria johannis, syn. Carduelis johannis)
• Yemen linnet Linaria yemenensis, syn. Carduelis yemenensis)

 

Translations

Carduelis cannabina, a finch of Europe, western Asia and northern Africa

• Bulgarian: конопарче n (konoparče)
• Czech: konopka f
• Dutch: kneu (nl) f or m
• Esperanto: kanabeno
• Faroese: línígða f
• Finnish: hemppo (fi)
• French: linotte (fr) f
• Galician: pintarroxo m, millarengo m, millaranco m, nabiñau m, rei (gl) m, zurica f, liñaceiro m
• German: Hänfling (de) m
• Hungarian: kenderike (hu)
• Irish: gleoiseach f, coinnleoir óir m
• Italian: fanello (it)
• Latin: linaria f
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: коршаҥгывуй (koršaŋgyvuj), кынегочшо (kyńegočšo), олагайык (olagajyk), порсынвуй (porsynvuj)

• Norman: (male) linnot m, (female) linnotte f
• Persian: ژورک (žurak)
• Polish: makolągwa (pl) f
• Portuguese: pintarroxo (pt) m
• Russian: конопля́нка (ru) f (konopljánka)
• Scottish Gaelic: gealbhonn-lìn m, breacan-beithe m
• Spanish: pardillo (es) m
• Swedish: hämpling (sv) c
• Ukrainian: конопля́нка f (konopljánka), конопля́рка f (konopljárka), конопля́ник m (konopljányk), конопе́льник m (konopélʹnyk), конопля́р m (konopljár)
• Volapük: janafrin
• Welsh: llinos f, aderyn y llin m
• West Frisian: robyntsje

Swedish

Noun

linnet

1. definite singular of linne