flamingo English · revision 2206

+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /fləˈmɪŋɡoʊ/ ''(US)''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|pt|flamengo]],^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline) or [[bor|es|flamengo]], now ''flamenco'',^(MW Collegiate)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline) and its further origin is disputed.^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline) One explanation is Provençal ''flamenc'' “flame-coloured”, from ''flama'' “flame”, Latin ''flamma'';^(AHD)^(Etymonline) the other is Spanish ''flamenco'' “Fleming”, from Dutch ''Vlaming'', because Flemings were conventionally pictured as ruddy-faced.^(Barnhart 1995)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU) Etymonline suggests that the word was at least accommodated to the word for ''Fleming''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A bird with bright scarlet or pink plumage, very long legs and neck and a bent bill (1565).^(OED 1989)^(MW Collegiate)^(Barnhart 1995) Etymonline dates it to the 1560s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Compare Greek ''phoinikópteros'' “flamingo”, literally “red-feathered”.^(Etymonline) The name has stayed attached to the bird,^(OED 1989)^(AHD) and was extended to its deep pink colour by 1897.^(OED 1989)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1565 – the bird.^(OED 1989)^(MW Collegiate)^(Barnhart 1995)

+ * 1862 – ''flamingo flower''.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1897 – the deep pink colour of the flamingo.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Any of several large wading birds of the family Phoenicopteridae, with pinkish or reddish plumage, long legs and neck, and a bill bent downward.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A deep pink or reddish orange colour.^(AHD)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[flamingo flower]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[flame]]

+ * [[flamenco]]

+ * [[Fleming]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}