graculus

See also: Graculus

Latin

Etymology

From *grācō + -ulus. Compare Proto-Slavic *grakati (to croak) and in the Germanic branch English croak and Old Norse krákr (crow), kráka (raven). All can be reconstructed to a root *grāk-, ultimately likely onomatopoeic.[1]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “how can be *greh₂-k- morphologically analyzed”)

Pronunciation

Noun

grāculus m (genitive grāculī); second declension

  1. jackdaw

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative grāculus grāculī
Genitive grāculī grāculōrum
Dative grāculō grāculīs
Accusative grāculum grāculōs
Ablative grāculō grāculīs
Vocative grācule grāculī

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “grāculus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 268
  • graculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • graculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • graculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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