ciconia

See also: Ciconia

Latin

cicōnia (a stork)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kekoh₂n- (“stork”), a reduplicated derivative of Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n- (“to sing”), whence also Latin canō (“to sing”). Cognate to Proto-Germanic *hanô (“rooster, cock”), Proto-Germanic *hanjō (“hen”) (whence English hen), Proto-Slavic *kaňa (“accipitrid”) (whence Russian каню́к (kanjúk, “buzzard”), Bulgarian ка́ня (kánja, “kite”), Bulgarian каню́ша (kanjúša, “stork”) (dialectal)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kiˈkoː.ni.a/, [kɪˈkoːniä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈko.ni.a/, [t͡ʃiˈkɔːniä]

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cicōnia	cicōniae
Genitive	cicōniae	cicōniārum
Dative	cicōniae	cicōniīs
Accusative	cicōniam	cicōniās
Ablative	cicōniā	cicōniīs
Vocative	cicōnia	cicōniae

Derived terms

• cicōnīnus

Descendants

• Asturian: cigüeña
• Catalan: cigonya
• Old French: ceoigne, çoigne
  • French: ceogne, çogne (dialectal, Brie)
• Galician: cegoña
• Italian: cicogna
• Occitan: cigonha
  • → French: cigogne
• Portuguese: cegonha
• Romansch: cicogna
• Sardinian:

Campidanese: cicònnia, cicogna, tzicònnia

Gallurese: cicona, cicogna

Logudorese: cicònia, cicogna, tzicònnia

Nuorese: tzicogna, ciconna, tziconna

Sassarese: cicogna

• Spanish: cigüeña
• Translingual: Ciconia

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• ciconia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, 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 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 525