turdus

From Proto-Italic *torzdos, from Proto-Indo-European *trosdos, whence also Russian дрозд (drozd), Old Church Slavonic дрозгу (drozgu), Welsh drudwy (“starling”), Middle Irish truid, and Lithuanian strazdas (“thrush”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtʊr.dʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtur.dus]

turdus m (genitive turdī); second declension

1. thrush, fieldfare
   • 20 BCE – 14 BCE, Horace, Epistles I.XV:

     Nīl melius turdō, nīl vulvā pulchrius amplā.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Second-declension noun.

• “turdus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “turdus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "turdus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “turdus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.