graculus

== Latin == === Etymology === From *grācō +‎ -ulus, from a Proto-Indo-European root *grāk-, related to *gerh₂- (“to cry hoarsely”), ultimately likely onomatopoeic. Compare Proto-Slavic *grakati (“to croak”) and in the Germanic branch English croak and Old Norse krákr (“crow”), kráka (“raven”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɡraː.kʊ.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɡraː.ku.lus] === Noun === grāculus m (genitive grāculī); second declension chough jackdaw Synonym: monēdula ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== grācula ==== Descendants ==== === References === “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.