struthio

See also: Struthio

Latin

Strūthiōnēs ― Ostriches

Etymology

Etymology tree

Pre-Greekbor.?

Ancient Greek στρουθός (strouthós)

Proto-Indo-European *-yōsder.

Proto-Indo-European *-isō

Proto-Hellenic *-ihō

Ancient Greek -ίων (-íōn)

Ancient Greek στρουθίων (strouthíōn)bor.

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Latin strūthiocamēlusinflu.

Latin strūthiō

From Ancient Greek στρουθίων (strouthíōn); or shortened from strūthiocamēlus, from Ancient Greek στρουθοκᾰ́μηλος (strouthokắmēlos), from στρουθός (strouthós, “sparrow”) + κάμηλος (kámēlos, “camel”). The first element of both Greek words is likely related to Latin turdus (“thrush”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈstruː.tʰi.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈstruː.ti.o]

Noun

strūthiō m (genitive strūthiōnis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) ostrich

   Synonym: strūthiocamēlus

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	strūthiō	strūthiōnēs
genitive	strūthiōnis	strūthiōnum
dative	strūthiōnī	strūthiōnibus
accusative	strūthiōnem	strūthiōnēs
ablative	strūthiōne	strūthiōnibus
vocative	strūthiō	strūthiōnēs

Related terms

• strūtheus
• strūthiocamēlinus
• strūthiocamēlus

Descendants

• Aragonese: estruz, estrucio
• Catalan: estruç
• Italian: struzzo
  • → Hungarian: strucc
  • → Romanian: struț
• Megleno-Romanian: ştruş
• Old Occitan: estrutz
  • Occitan: estruci
  • → Asturian: avistruechu (ave 'bird' + estruechu)
  • → Old Galician-Portuguese: estruz
    • ⇒ Galician: avestruz (ave 'bird' + estruz)
    • ⇒ Portuguese: avestruz
  • → Old Spanish: estruz
    • ⇒ Spanish: avestruz
      • → Asturian: avestruz
• Piedmontese: struss
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *austrūthiō (avis 'bird' + strūthiō)
  • Old French: ostruce
    • French: autruche
    • Norman: autruche
    • → Middle English: ostrich, ostriche, ostrige, ostryche
      • English: ostrich
      • Scots: ostriche (obsolete)
      • → Welsh: estrys
• → Proto-West Germanic: *strūcijō (see there for further descendants)
• → Translingual: Struthio

References

• “struthio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "struthio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “struthio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.