turdus Latin · revision 33306

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *(s)tr(o)sdʰo-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈtʊr.dʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈtur.dus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''turdus''' ''m'' (genitive turdī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Persius has a feminine ''turda'', which Varro rejects.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*torzdo-]], [[inh|ine-pro|*(s)tr(o)sdʰo-|t=thrush]];^(de Vaan 2008) de Vaan thinks it more likely continues a form ⟨*tr̥zdo-⟩.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sga|truit|t=thrush]], [[lt|strãzdas|t=thrush]] and [[non|þrǫstr|t=thrush]],^(de Vaan 2008) and with English [[m|en|thrush]].^(OLD 2012)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) who has a thrush going for a worm from a snare, ''ab transenna hic turdus lumbricum petit''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the thrush or a similar bird, such as the fieldfare.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Varro discusses thrushes kept in aviaries, and Horace, Columella and Pliny the Elder also write of them.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Varro also has the [[turdārium]], an enclosure where thrushes were kept.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Etymonline) Ennius uses it of a fish of rocky shores, probably a wrasse.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of a thrush and a snare.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius, of a fish.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro, of thrushes kept in aviaries.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|thrush]] or similar bird, a [[m|en|fieldfare]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A fish of rocky shores, probably a [[m|en|wrasse]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[turda]]

+ * [[turdārium]]

+ * [[turdēla]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|thrush]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}