vireoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈvi.ɹi.oʊ/

名詞

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 is our only vireo that has two white wing bars, yellow spectacles, and yellow sides.

2. 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.

使用する際の注意点

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

派生語

Further reading

• vireo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Vireo on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Vireo on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

語源 1

Unknown. The LIV suggests that it derives from a PIE verb *wis-éh₁-ye-ti, from a root *weys-, perhaps whence also Lithuanian veisti (“to breed, rear”). Moreover, the term has been connected with Old Norse vísir (“sprout”), and 古期英語 wīse (“sprout, stem”). If this comparison is accepted, the terms could all be attributed to a PIE root of the shape *weys-. However, De Vaan rejects all of the proposed cognates on semantic grounds.

動詞

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

1. to be verdant, green; to sprout new green growth
2. to flourish; to be lively, vigorous

Conjugation

派生語

• virectum
• viridis
• viror

語源 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

名詞

vireō m (genitive vireōnis); third declension

1. a bird, probably the greenfinch

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生した語

• → English: vireo
• ⇒ Italian: verdone
• ⇒ Spanish: verderón

Notes

参照

• “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
• “vireo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (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