Translingual

Proper noun

Ciconia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Ciconiidae – the storks.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Aves - class; Saurornithes - informal group; Ornithothoraces, Ornithurae - clades; Carinatae - subclass; Neornithes - infraclass; Neognathae - parvclass; Ciconiiformes - order; Ciconii - suborder; Ciconiida - parvorder; Ciconioidea - superfamily; Ciconiidae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Ciconia abdimii, Ciconia episcopus, Ciconia stormi, Ciconia maguari, Ciconia boyciana, Ciconia ciconia, Ciconia nigra - species

References

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

Latin

cicōnia (a stork)

Noun

cicōnia f ‎(genitive cicōniae); first declension

1. stork
2. a derisive gesture made with the fingers
3. a T-shaped instrument used to measure depth of furrows
4. a transverse pole, mounted on a post, for drawing water

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

• cicōnīnus

Descendants

References

• ciconia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ciconia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• CICONIA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “ciconia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• ciconia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume II, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 525