vireo

See also: Vireo

English

Black-whiskered vireos, Vireo altiloquus

Etymology

From Latin vireo.

Noun

vireo (plural vireos or vireoes)

1. 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.

2. (in plural) Any bird of the family Vireonidae, which includes vireos, shrike-vireos, greenlets and peppershrikes.
   • 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.

Usage notes

The alternative plural form vireoes appears to be relatively rare and dated.

Derived terms

• shrike-vireo (genus Vireolanius)

Translations

any species of genus Vireo

• Finnish: vireo (fi)
• French: viréo (fr) m

• Spanish: verderón (es) m

any species of family Vireonidae

Further reading

• Vireo (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Vireo on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Vireo on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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Finnish

Noun

vireo

1. vireo (bird of the genus Vireo)

Declension

Inflection of vireo (Kotus type 3/valtio, no gradation)
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

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Latin

Etymology

From a Proto-Indo-European root referring to growing plants; see also Old English wise (“stalk, sprout”), Old Norse visir (“sprout, bud”), Lithuanian veisti (“propagate”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwi.re.oː/, [ˈwɪ.re.oː]

Verb

vireō (present infinitive virēre, perfect active viruī); second conjugation, no passive

1. I am verdant, green; I sprout new green growth.
2. I flourish; I am lively, vigorous.

Inflection

Conjugation of vireo (second conjugation, active only)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	vireō	virēs	viret	virēmus	virētis	virent
	imperfect	virēbam	virēbās	virēbat	virēbāmus	virēbātis	virēbant
	future	virēbō	virēbis	virēbit	virēbimus	virēbitis	virēbunt
	perfect	viruī	viruistī	viruit	viruimus	viruistis	viruērunt, viruēre
	pluperfect	virueram	viruerās	viruerat	viruerāmus	viruerātis	viruerant
	future perfect	viruerō	virueris	viruerit	viruerimus	virueritis	viruerint
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	viream	vireās	vireat	vireāmus	vireātis	vireant
	imperfect	virērem	virērēs	virēret	virērēmus	virērētis	virērent
	perfect	viruerim	viruerīs	viruerit	viruerīmus	viruerītis	viruerint
	pluperfect	viruissem	viruissēs	viruisset	viruissēmus	viruissētis	viruissent
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	virē	—	—	virēte	—
	future	—	virētō	virētō	—	virētōte	virentō
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		virēre	viruisse	—	—	—	—
participles		virēns	—	—	—	—	—
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		nominative	genitive	dative/ablative	accusative	accusative	ablative
		virēre	virendī	virendō	virendum	—	—

Derived terms

• virectum
• viridis
• viror

Noun

vireō m (genitive vireōnis); third declension

1. a bird, probably the greenfinch.

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	vireō	vireōnēs
genitive	vireōnis	vireōnum
dative	vireōnī	vireōnibus
accusative	vireōnem	vireōnēs
ablative	vireōne	vireōnibus
vocative	vireō	vireōnēs

Descendants

• English: vireo

References

• vireo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vireo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “vireo” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• 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