colibri

See also: Colibri, colibrí, and colibrì

French

colibri

Etymology

From a Caribbean source.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.li.bʁi/

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Noun

colibri m (plural colibris)

1. hummingbird

   Synonym: oiseau-mouche

Descendants

• → Russian: коли́бри (kolíbri) (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “colibri” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Noun

colibri m (plural colibri)

1. Alternative form of colibrì.

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French colibri, from a Caribbean source.

Noun

colibri m (plural colibris)

1. hummingbird

   Synonym: beija-flor

Further reading

• “colibri” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French colibri, from a Caribbean source.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko.liˈbri/

Noun

colibri m (plural colibri)

1. hummingbird

Declension

Declension of colibri

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) colibri	colibriul	(niște) colibri	colibrii
genitive/dative	(unui) colibri	colibriului	(unor) colibri	colibrilor
vocative	colibriule		colibrilor

Synonyms

• pasărea-muscă

Derived terms

• colibri cioc-de-vultur
• colibri cu coadă-de-rândunică
• colibri cu coadă încovoiată
• colibri cu spadă
• colibri-de-ametist
• colibri-de-topaz
• colibri uriaș

See also

• trohilide

References

• colibri in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)