vultur

See also: Vultur

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• vulturu, vãltur, vãlturu, vãltor, vãltoru

Etymology

From Latin vultur or vulturius. Compare Romanian vultur.

Noun

vultur m (plural vulturi)

1. vulture
2. eagle

Synonyms

• Synonyms: ljipurar, ornji, aito, atsirã, utã, hutã, hutcã, stavrait, schiponj, schifter

Latin

Alternative forms

• voltur

Etymology

Probably from the same source as vellere (“to tear, pluck”), with a suffix related to -tor. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwʊɫ.tʊr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvul.tur]

Noun

vultur m (genitive vulturis); third declension

1. vulture

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vultur	vulturēs
genitive	vulturis	vulturum
dative	vulturī	vulturibus
accusative	vulturem	vulturēs
ablative	vulture	vulturibus
vocative	vultur	vulturēs

Synonyms

• (vulture): vulturius

Descendants

• Aromanian: vultur, vãltur
• Asturian: utre, butre, utra
• Catalan: voltor
• English: vulture
• French: vautour
• Italian: avvoltoio, avvoltore, voltore, vultore, vulture
• Galician: voitre, butre
• Ladin: valtoi
• Occitan: voltre, voltor, voutor
• Portuguese: abutre
• Romanian: vultur
• Sicilian: vuturu, avuturu
• Spanish: buitre
• Venetan: voltor

References

• “vultur”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vultur”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Old French

Noun

vultur oblique singular, m (oblique plural vulturs, nominative singular vulturs, nominative plural vultur)

1. alternative form of voutoir

References

• vultur on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Romanian

Alternative forms

• vulture, hultur, hulture

Etymology

Inherited from Latin vultur, vulturem (“vulture”) or vulturius. The standard pronunciation has the accent on the first syllable, but there is a variant with it on the second.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvultur], [vulˈtur]

Noun

vultur m (plural vulturi)

1. accipitrid
   1. vulture
   2. buzzard
   3. eagle
   4. kite
   5. harrier
2. (figuratively) a brave, admirable man

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	vultur	vulturul		vulturi	vulturii
genitive-dative	vultur	vulturului		vulturi	vulturilor
vocative	vulturule			vulturilor

See also

• aceră
• acvilă
• pajură

Volapük

Noun

vultur (genitive vultura, plural vulturs)

1. vulture

Declension

Declension of vultur

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vultur	vulturs
Genitive	vultura	vulturas
Dative	vulture	vultures
Accusative	vulturi	vulturis
Predicative1	vulturu	vulturus
Vocative	o vultur	o vulturs

1. Introduced in Volapük Nulik.