struthio

From Ancient Greek στρουθίων (strouthíōn); or shortened from strūthiocamēlus, from Ancient Greek στρουθιοκάμηλος (strouthiokámēlos), from στρουθός (strouthós, “sparrow”) + κάμηλος (kámēlos, “camel”). The first element of both Greek words is likely related to Latin turdus (“thrush”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈstruː.tʰi.oː/, [ˈs̠t̪ruːt̪ʰioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈstru.ti.o/, [ˈst̪ruːt̪io]

strūthiō m (genitive strūthiōnis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) ostrich

Third-declension noun.

• (ostrich): strūthiocamēlus

• strūtheus
• strūthiocamēlinus
• strūthiocamēlus

• “struthio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• struthio 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)
• struthio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.