hairo

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *haigrō, *hraigrō (heron).

Pronunciation

Noun

hairō m (genitive hairōnis); third declension[1][2]

  1. (Medieval Latin) heron

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative hairō hairōnēs
Genitive hairōnis hairōnum
Dative hairōnī hairōnibus
Accusative hairōnem hairōnēs
Ablative hairōne hairōnibus
Vocative hairō hairōnēs

Descendants

  • Franco-Provençal:
  • Old French: heiron, heron, herone, heroun (1150, Roman de Thèbes)
    • Bourbonnais-Berrichon: aigron, hégron (Bourbonnais), aigueron, aigron(Berrichon)
    • Franc-Comtois: âron
    • Middle French: heron, hairon
    • Gallo: aégron
    • Picard: hérôn, éron (Athois)
    • Poitevin-Saintongeais: égrun, égroun
    • Walloon: éron (Forrières)
    • Middle English: heron, heroun, heiron
  • Italian: airone, aghirone
  • Old Occitan: aigron, haigron
    • Occitan:
      • Auvergnat: eigron (Forez, Gannatois), jiralégre (Limagne), jirai, jiriau (Limagne, Northern), igroû
      • Gascon: girou
      • Old Languedocien:
        • Cévenol: dgiraï pestsaï-re
        • Languedocien: guiraud
        • Rouergat: hiroun
      • Limousin: eïron
      • Provençal: huroun
    • Old Occitan: aigreta
  • Sicilian: aroi
  • Spanish: airón

References

  1. Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “hairo”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 479
  2. hairo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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