ciconia

• conea (Praenestine)

Disputed. Perhaps from Proto-Italic *kikōniā, 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)).

De Vaan doubts the relation to canō, arguing that it is unlikely for the noise of a stork to be labeled as "singing" unless it is intended to be ironic. He suggests the initial reduplication is likely onomatopoeic in origin.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɪˈkoː.ni.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃiˈkɔː.ni.a]

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

First-declension noun.

• cicōnīnus

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