hirundo

From Latin hirundō.

• IPA^(key): [hiˈrundo]
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• Rhymes: -undo
• Hyphenation: hi‧run‧do

hirundo (accusative singular hirundon, plural hirundoj, accusative plural hirundojn)

1. swallow (bird)

   Hyponyms: hirundido (“young swallow”), hirundino (“female swallow”)

Borrowed from Esperanto hirundo, Latin hirundō, French hirondelle, Italian irondine, Spanish golondrina.

• IPA^(key): /hiˈrun.do/

hirundo (plural hirundi)

1. swallow (bird)

Possibly related to hirrio due to its sound, or related to harundo because of its forked tail. Compare Ancient Greek χελῑδών (khelīdṓn).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hiˈrun.doː/, [hɪˈrʊn̪d̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /iˈrun.do/, [iˈrun̪d̪o]

hirundō f (genitive hirundinis); third declension

1. swallow (bird)
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.853–854:

     Fallimur, an vēris praenūntia venit hirundō
     nec metuit, nē quā versa recurrat hiems?

     Am I mistaken, or has the swallow come, the herald of spring,
     and does she not fear winter will turn and come again?

2. flying fish (sea-swallow)

Third-declension noun.

• “hirundo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hirundo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hirundo 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)
• hirundo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.