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Proper noun

Vireo m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Vireonidae – the vireos.

Translations

References

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

English

Black-whiskered vireos, Vireo altiloquus

Noun

vireo ‎(plural vireos or vireoes)

1. Any of a number of small insectivorous passerine birds, of the genus Vireo, that have grey-green plumage.
   • 1998, Sally Roth, Attracting Birds to Your Backyard, page 257,

     The voices of male vireos are a constant in the spring woodland, providing background music to the longer, prettier songs of tanagers and thrushes. Vireos tend to sing in bursts interrupted by short or long pauses.

   • 2007, Jonathan Elphick, The Atlas of Bird Migration: Tracing the Great Journeys of the World's Birds, page 72,

     Uniquely American, the vireos are a group of some 46 foliage-gleaning forest birds with uncertain family connections. Vireo species are about equally divided between North and South America, with one, the Black-whiskered Vireo, largely restricted to the West Indies. Several vireos make long migratory journeys; all are nocturnal migrants.

   • 2012, Eloise Potter, Birds of the Carolinas, Easyread Large Edition, page 94,

     This^{[the white-eyed vireo]} is our only vireo that has two white wing bars, yellow spectacles, and yellow sides.

2. (in plural) Any bird of the family Vireonidae, which includes vireos, shrike-vireos, greenlets and peppershrikes.
   • 1950, Ernest Sheldon Booth, Birds of the West, page 282,

     Family Vireonidae

     Vireos

     The vireos are slim grayish green birds that stay high up in the trees most of the time.

Usage notes

The alternative plural form vireoes appears to be relatively rare and dated.

Derived terms

• shrike-vireo (genus Vireolanius)

Translations

Finnish

Noun

vireo

1. vireo (bird of the genus Vireo)

Declension

Latin

Etymology

From a Proto-Indo-European root referring to growing plants; see also Old English wise ‎(“stalk, sprout”), Old Norse visir ‎(“sprout, bud”), Lithuanian veisti ‎(“propagate”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwi.re.oː/

Verb

vireō ‎(present infinitive virēre, perfect active viruī); second conjugation, no passive

1. I am verdant, green; I sprout new green growth.
2. I flourish; I am lively, vigorous.

Inflection

Derived terms

• virectum
• viridis
• viror

Noun

vireō m ‎(genitive vireōnis); third declension

1. a bird, probably the greenfinch.

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

• English: vireo

References

• vireo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vireo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “vireo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) bodily strength: vires corporis or merely vires
    
  • (ambiguous) to gain strength: vires colligere
    
  • (ambiguous) to lose strength: vires aliquem deficiunt
    
  • (ambiguous) as long as one's strength holds out: dum vires suppetunt
    
  • (ambiguous) to become old and feeble: vires consenescunt