different between nightingale vs fauvette

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?na?t???e?l/

Etymology 1

From Middle English nyghtyngale, nightingale, ni?tingale, alteration (with intrusive n) of nyghtgale, nightegale, from Old English nihtegala, nihtegale (“nightingale; night-raven”, literally “night-singer”), from Proto-West Germanic *nahtigal? (“nightingale”), equivalent to night +? gale. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Noachtegoal (“nightingale”), Dutch nachtegaal (“nightingale”), German Low German Nachtigall (“nightingale”), German Nachtigall (“nightingale”), Danish nattergal (“nightingale”), Swedish näktergal (“nightingale”), Icelandic næturgali (“nightingale”).

Noun

nightingale (plural nightingales)

1. A European songbird, Luscinia megarhynchos, of the family Muscicapidae.
   • 1826, Mary Shelley, chapter 5 in the first part of The Last Man

     The oaks around were the home of a tribe of nightingales

Synonyms

• philomel

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Named after Florence Nightingale.

Noun

nightingale (plural nightingales)

1. A kind of flannel scarf with sleeves, formerly worn by invalids when sitting up in bed.

Anagrams

• alightening

Middle English

Noun

nightingale

1. Alternative form of nyghtyngale

English

Etymology

French fauvette, diminutive of fauve (“fawn-coloured”).

Noun

fauvette (plural fauvettes)

1. A small songbird, such as a nightingale or warbler.
   • 1853, James Rennie, Bird-architecture (page 287)

     On the other hand a young owl, which had as yet only been fed by hand, began of itself to eat by devouring a fauvette which was lodged with it.

French

Etymology

From fauve +? -ette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fo.v?t/

Noun

fauvette f (plural fauvettes)

1. warbler
   • 1976, Michel Fugain et le Big Bazar, "Le printemps".

Further reading

• “fauvette” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).