albicilla

From albus (“white”) + New Latin cilla (“tail”).

albicilla f (genitive albicillae); first declension

1. a white-tailed eagle, Haliaeetus albicilla
   • 1713, John Ray, Synopsis methodica avium & piscium page 7, number 5:^[1]

     Pygargus, Albicilla Gazæ, quibusdam Hinnularia.

     Pygargus, for Gaza [called] albicilla, for certain people Hinnularia.

   • 1551 – 1558, Conrad Gessner, Historia animalium page 199, lines 30-31:.^[2]

     Pygargus (ab albicante cauda dicitur, ac si albicillam nomines, ut Gaza de suo addit)

     Pygargus (one says because of its whitening tail, just as if you'd call it albicilla, as Gaza adds on his own accord

First-declension noun.

• Translingual: Haliaeetus albicilla

albicilla

1. inflection of albicillus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

albicillā

1. ablative feminine singular of albicillus

• "albicilla", 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)