vultur

See also: Vultur

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• vãltor, vulturu, vãlturu

Etymology

From Latin vultur or vulturius. Compare Romanian vultur.

Noun

vultur

1. vulture
2. eagle

See also

• aito, ornji, utã, schifter, stavrait, schiponjiu

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Latin

Alternative forms

• voltur

Etymology

Probably from the same source as vellere (“to tear, pluck”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯ul.tur/, [ˈu̯ʊɫ̪t̪ʊr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvul.tur/, [ˈvul̪t̪ur]

Noun

vultur m (genitive vulturis); third declension

1. vulture

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	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, vãltor
• Asturian: utre, butre, utra
• Catalan: voltor
• English: vulture
• French: vautour
• Italian: avvoltoio
• Galician: voitre
• Ladin: valtoi

• Mozarabic: فُّوكْتُورى (vóctori)
• Occitan: voltre, voltor, voutor
• Portuguese: abutre
• Romanian: vultur
• Sicilian: vuturu, avuturu
• Spanish: buitre
• Venetian: 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

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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

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Romanian

Alternative forms

• vulture, hultur, hulture

Etymology

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

Declension of vultur

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) vultur	vulturul	(niște) vulturi	vulturii
genitive/dative	(unui) vultur	vulturului	(unor) vulturi	vulturilor
vocative	vulturule		vulturilor

See also

• aceră
• acvilă
• pajură

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Volapük

Noun

vultur (nominative plural vulturs)

1. vulture

Declension

declension of vultur

	singular	plural
nominative	vultur	vulturs
genitive	vultura	vulturas
dative	vulture	vultures
accusative	vulturi	vulturis
vocative 1	o vultur!	o vulturs!
predicative 2	vulturu	vulturus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only