vireo

From translingual Vireo (genus name), from Latin vireō (“I am green”).

vireo (plural vireos or vireoes)

1. Any of a number of small insectivorous passerine birds, of the genus Vireo, that have grey-green plumage.
   • 1998, Sally Roth, Attracting Birds to Your Backyard, page 257:

     The voices of male vireos are a constant in the spring woodland, providing background music to the longer, prettier songs of tanagers and thrushes. Vireos tend to sing in bursts interrupted by short or long pauses.

   • 2007, Jonathan Elphick, The Atlas of Bird Migration: Tracing the Great Journeys of the World's Birds, page 72:

     Uniquely American, the vireos are a group of some 46 foliage-gleaning forest birds with uncertain family connections. Vireo species are about equally divided between North and South America, with one, the Black-whiskered Vireo, largely restricted to the West Indies. Several vireos make long migratory journeys; all are nocturnal migrants.

   • 2012, Eloise Potter, Birds of the Carolinas, Easyread Large Edition, page 94,

     This^{[the white-eyed vireo]} is our only vireo that has two white wing bars, yellow spectacles, and yellow sides.

2. Any bird of the family Vireonidae, which includes vireos, shrike-vireos, greenlets, and peppershrikes.
   • 1950, Ernest Sheldon Booth, Birds of the West, page 282:

     Family Vireonidae
     Vireos
     The vireos are slim grayish green birds that stay high up in the trees most of the time.

The alternative plural form vireoes appears to be relatively rare and dated.

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From translingual Vireo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋireo/, [ˈʋire̞o̞]
• Rhymes: -ireo
• Syllabification^(key): vi‧re‧o

vireo

1. vireo (bird of the genus Vireo)

• viero

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯i.re.oː/, [ˈu̯ɪreoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.re.o/, [ˈviːreo]

From Proto-Italic *wizēō, from Proto-Indo-European *wiséh₁yeti, from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to increase”). See also Old English wise (“stalk, sprout”), Old Norse visir (“sprout, bud”), Lithuanian veisti (“propagate”).

vireō (present infinitive virēre, perfect active viruī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

1. to be verdant, green; to sprout new green growth
2. to flourish; to be lively, vigorous

• virectum
• viridis
• viror

vireō m (genitive vireōnis); third declension

1. a bird, probably the greenfinch

Third-declension noun.

• → English: vireo

• “vireo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vireo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vireo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) bodily strength: vires corporis or merely vires
    
  • (ambiguous) to gain strength: vires colligere
    
  • (ambiguous) to lose strength: vires aliquem deficiunt
    
  • (ambiguous) as long as one's strength holds out: dum vires suppetunt
    
  • (ambiguous) to become old and feeble: vires consenescunt