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icterus
English
Etymology
From the Latin icterus, from the Ancient Greek ??????? (íkteros, “jaundice”).
Noun
icterus (uncountable)
- (medicine) An excess of bile pigments in the blood; jaundice.
- A yellowish appearance in plants.
Derived terms
- icteric
Translations
Anagrams
- crustie, curiets, curites, curse it
Latin
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek ??????? (íkteros, “jaundice”, “a bird of a yellowish-green colour, perhaps the golden oriole”), of uncertain ultimate origin; possibly related to ????? (íktis, “weasel”), ??????? (íktînos), or of Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?ik.te.rus/, [??kt????s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?ik.te.rus/, [?ikt???us]
Noun
icterus m (genitive icter?); second declension
- a yellow bird, otherwise unknown, the sight of which was said to cure jaundice; perhaps loriot, golden oriole
Usage notes
- The Latin word that translates the English words jaundice and icterus is aur?g?.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Related terms
- icteri?s
- ictericus
Descendants
- English: icterus
- German: Ikterus
References
- ict?rus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ict?rus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 765/1
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hangbird
English
Etymology
hang +? bird
Noun
hangbird (plural hangbirds)
- The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula), whose nest is suspended from the limb of a tree.
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