tinnunculus

== Latin == === Alternative forms === titiunculus, tinnungulus, titumglus, titiunglus === Etymology === Possibly from tinniō (“to shriek”, verb) +‎ -unculus (diminutive) if the reading tinn- is correct. Manuscripts show variation in the form of the word. Lindsay 1918 argues that the correct reading is titi- (found in a manuscript of Columella but not of Pliny) and derives the word from an n-stem noun *titiō, titiōn- built on the root of titus (“wood pigeon”), comparing Romance words for woodpigeon descended from *titō, titōn- such as Sardinian tidu, tidone, totoni; Sicilian tuduni, tutuni, Maltese tudun. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [tɪnˈnʊŋ.kʊ.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [tinˈnuŋ.ku.lus] === Noun === tinnunculus m (genitive tinnunculī); second declension (ornithology) kestrel ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== Translingual: Falco tinnunculus (“common kestrel”) === References === === Further reading === “tinnunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “tinnunculus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.