Translingual

Falco jugger

Wikispecies

Proper noun

Falco m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Falconidae – falcons.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Aves - class; Saurornithes - informal group; Ornithothoraces, Ornithurae - clades; Carinatae - subclass; Neornithes - infraclass; Neognathae - parvclass; Falconiformes - order; Falconidae - family; Falconinae - subfamily; Falconini - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Falco alopex, Falco amurensis, Falco araea, Falco ardosiaceus, Falco berigora, Falco biarmicus, Falco cenchroides, Falco cherrug, Falco chicquera, Falco columbarius, Falco concolor, Falco cuvierii, Falco deiroleucus, Falco dickinsoni, Falco eleonorae, Falco fasciinucha, Falco femoralis, Falco hypoleucos, Falco jugger, Falco longipennis, Falco mexicanus, Falco moluccensis, Falco naumanni, Falco newtoni, Falco novaeseelandiae, Falco pelegrinoides, Falco peregrinus, Falco punctatus, Falco rufigularis, Falco rupicoloides, Falco rupicolus, Falco rusticolus, Falco severus, Falco sparverius, Falco subbuteo, Falco subniger, Falco tinnunculus, Falco vespertinus, Falco zoniventris - species

References

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

Italian

Noun

falco m ‎(plural falchi)

1. hawk, falcon

Related terms

Latin

Etymology

Late Latin, of uncertain and disputed origin, but probably from Germanic given the early attestation and widespread use of the word in Germanic. Perhaps from Old High German falco, falcho, falucho ‎(“falcon”), from Proto-Germanic *falkô ‎(“falcon", literally, "grey bird”), from Proto-Indo-European *pol-, *pel- ‎(“grey, bluish”). Cognate with Old Saxon falko ‎(“falcon”), Old English fealca, fealcen ‎(“falcon”), Old Norse falki ‎(“falcon”), Old High German falo ‎(“pale”), Latin pullus ‎(“dusky coloured, blackish”). More at fallow.

Alternate etymology connects Late Latin falco to Latin falx ‎(“sickle, hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhalk-, *dhalg- ‎(“a cutting tool”), but this derivation is usually regarded as folk-etymology due to the bird's curved beak and talons^[1].

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfal.koː/

Noun

falcō m ‎(genitive falcōnis); third declension

1. falcon

Inflection

Third declension.

Related terms

• flectō

Descendants

References

• falco in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• FALCO in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “falco”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

1. ↑ Webster's New World College Dictionary, falcon.

See also

• falx

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *falkô. See Latin falco.

Noun

falco m

1. falcon

Descendants

• German: Falke