Translingual

Wikispecies

Proper noun

Icterus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Icteridae.

References

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

English

Noun

icterus ‎(uncountable)

1. (medicine) An excess of bile pigments in the blood; jaundice.

Derived terms

• icteric

Anagrams

• crustie, curse it

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ἴκτερος ‎(íkteros, “jaundice”, “a bird of a yellowish-green colour, perhaps the golden oriole”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈik.te.rus/, [ˈɪk.tɛ.rʊs]

Noun

icterus m ‎(genitive icterī); second declension

1. 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 aurūgō.

Declension

Second declension.

Related terms

• icteriās
• ictericus

Descendants

• English: icterus
• German: Ikterus

References

• ictĕrus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “ictĕrus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 765/1.