Translingual

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Proper noun

Psittacus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Psittacidae – the grey parrot.

Hypernyms

• (family): Aves - class; Saurornithes - informal group; Ornithothoraces, Ornithurae - clades; Carinatae - subclass; Neornithes - infraclass; Neognathae - parvclass; Psittaciformes - order; Psittacoidea - superfamily; Psittacidae - family; Psittacinae - subfamily; Psittacini - tribe

References

• Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0691128276

Latin

psittacus (a parrot)

Noun

psittacus m ‎(genitive psittacī); second declension

1. A parrot (bird)

Inflection

Second declension.

Related terms

• psittacīnus

Descendants

• German: Sittich

References

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