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See also: Vireo
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From translingual Vireo (genus name), from Latin vireō (“I am green”).
Noun[edit]
vireo (plural vireos or vireoes)
- Any of a number of small insectivorous passerine birds, of the genus Vireo, that have grey-green plumage.
- 1998, Sally Roth, Attracting Birds to Your Backyard, page 257,
- The voices of male vireos are a constant in the spring woodland, providing background music to the longer, prettier songs of tanagers and thrushes. Vireos tend to sing in bursts interrupted by short or long pauses.
- 2007, Jonathan Elphick, The Atlas of Bird Migration: Tracing the Great Journeys of the World's Birds, page 72,
- Uniquely American, the vireos are a group of some 46 foliage-gleaning forest birds with uncertain family connections. Vireo species are about equally divided between North and South America, with one, the Black-whiskered Vireo, largely restricted to the West Indies. Several vireos make long migratory journeys; all are nocturnal migrants.
- 2012, Eloise Potter, Birds of the Carolinas, Easyread Large Edition, page 94,
- This[the white-eyed vireo] is our only vireo that has two white wing bars, yellow spectacles, and yellow sides.
- 1998, Sally Roth, Attracting Birds to Your Backyard, page 257,
- Any bird of the family Vireonidae, which includes vireos, shrike-vireos, greenlets and peppershrikes.
- (in the plural) The family Vireonidae.
- 1950, Ernest Sheldon Booth, Birds of the West, page 282,
- Family Vireonidae
- Vireos
- The vireos are slim grayish green birds that stay high up in the trees most of the time.
- 1950, Ernest Sheldon Booth, Birds of the West, page 282,
Usage notes[edit]
The alternative plural form vireoes appears to be relatively rare and dated.
Derived terms[edit]
- shrike-vireo (genus Vireolanius)
- vireonine
Translations[edit]
any species of family Vireonidae
Further reading[edit]
Vireo (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Vireo on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Vireo on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Finnish[edit]
Noun[edit]
vireo
Declension[edit]
Inflection of vireo (Kotus type 3/valtio, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | vireo | vireot | |
genitive | vireon | vireoiden vireoitten | |
partitive | vireota | vireoita | |
illative | vireoon | vireoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | vireo | vireot | |
accusative | nom. | vireo | vireot |
gen. | vireon | ||
genitive | vireon | vireoiden vireoitten | |
partitive | vireota | vireoita | |
inessive | vireossa | vireoissa | |
elative | vireosta | vireoista | |
illative | vireoon | vireoihin | |
adessive | vireolla | vireoilla | |
ablative | vireolta | vireoilta | |
allative | vireolle | vireoille | |
essive | vireona | vireoina | |
translative | vireoksi | vireoiksi | |
instructive | — | vireoin | |
abessive | vireotta | vireoitta | |
comitative | — | vireoineen |
Possessive forms of vireo (type valtio) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | vireoni | vireomme |
2nd person | vireosi | vireonne |
3rd person | vireonsa |
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Proto-Italic *wizēō, from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to increase”). See also Old English wise (“stalk, sprout”), Old Norse visir (“sprout, bud”), Lithuanian veisti (“propagate”).
Verb[edit]
vireō (present infinitive virēre, perfect active viruī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
Conjugation[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
vireō m (genitive vireōnis); third declension
- a bird, probably the greenfinch.
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | vireō | vireōnēs |
Genitive | vireōnis | vireōnum |
Dative | vireōnī | vireōnibus |
Accusative | vireōnem | vireōnēs |
Ablative | vireōne | vireōnibus |
Vocative | vireō | vireōnēs |
Descendants[edit]
- → English: vireo
References[edit]
- “vireo”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- “vireo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vireo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) bodily strength: vires corporis or merely vires
- (ambiguous) to gain strength: vires colligere
- (ambiguous) to lose strength: vires aliquem deficiunt
- (ambiguous) as long as one's strength holds out: dum vires suppetunt
- (ambiguous) to become old and feeble: vires consenescunt
- (ambiguous) bodily strength: vires corporis or merely vires
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