graculus

See also: Graculus

Latin

Etymology

From *grācō +‎ -ulus. Compare Proto-Slavic *grakati (“to croak”) and in the Germanic branch English croak and Old Norse krákr (“crow”), kráka (“raven”). All can be reconstructed to a root *grāk-, ultimately likely onomatopoeic.^[1]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “how can be *greh₂-k- morphologically analyzed”)

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡraː.ku.lus/, [ˈɡräːkʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡra.ku.lus/, [ˈɡräːkulus]

Noun

grāculus m (genitive grāculī); second declension

jackdaw

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	grāculus	grāculī
genitive	grāculī	grāculōrum
dative	grāculō	grāculīs
accusative	grāculum	grāculōs
ablative	grāculō	grāculīs
vocative	grācule	grāculī

Derived terms

grācula

Descendants

Asturian: grayu
Catalan: gralla, grall
→ English: grackle
French: grolle
Galician: gralla
Italian: gracchia, gracchio, grola, gravolo (regional)
Neapolitan: gravulu (Calabrian)
Occitan: gralha
Portuguese: gralha, gralho
Romagnol: gravolo
Romanian: graur
Spanish: grajo

References

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “grāculus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 268

“graculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“graculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
graculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

[1] De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “grāculus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 268

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