Translingual

Alauda arvensis

Proper noun

Alauda f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Alaudidae – typical larks.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Aves - class; Carinatae - subclass; Neornithes - infraclass; Neognathae - parvclass; Passeriformes - order; Passeri - suborder; Passerida - parvorder; Passeroidea - superfamily; Alaudidae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Alauda arvensis, Alauda gulgula, Alauda razae - species

References

• Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0691128276

Latin

alauda (a skylark)

Noun

alauda f ‎(genitive alaudae); first declension

1. A lark; the crested lark, the skylark.

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

• Alauda
• alaudula

Descendants

• French: alouette, aloyau
• Italian: allodola
• Spanish: alondra
• Translingual: Alauda

References

• alauda in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ALAUDA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “alauda”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• alauda in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• alauda in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin