fringilla

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Indo-European *bʰereg- (“to make a noise, growl, bark”) (with the diminutive suffix -illa), from *bʰer- (“to drone, hum, buzz”). Cognate with English bark, Latin frigūtiō (“I chirp”), Lithuanian burgė́ti (“to growl, grumble, grouch, quarrel”) and Serbo-Croatian brgljati (“to murmur”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [frɪŋˈɡɪl.la] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [frin̠ʲˈd͡ʒil.la] === Noun === fringilla f (genitive fringillae); first declension (Classical Latin) a small bird, possibly the robin or the chaffinch (New Latin) finch ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== fringilla Canāria (“canary”) ==== Related terms ==== frigūtiō ==== Descendants ==== === References === “fringilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “fringilla”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.