colibri
French
Etymology
From a Caribbean source.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ.li.bʁi/
Audio: (file)
Noun
colibri m (plural colibris)
- hummingbird
- Synonym: oiseau-mouche
Descendants
- → Catalan: colibrí
- → Dutch: kolibrie
- → Greek: κολιμπρί (kolimprí)
- Kashubian: kòliber
- Polish: koliber
- → Portuguese: colibri
- → Romanian: colibri
- → Russian: коли́бри (kolíbri) (see there for further descendants)
- → Spanish: colibrí
- → Ukrainian: колібрі (kolibri)
Further reading
- “colibri”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
Noun
colibri m (plural colibris, reintegrationist norm)
- reintegrationist spelling of colibrí
Further reading
- “colibri” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
Italian
Noun
colibri m
- alternative form of colibrì
Anagrams
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from French colibri,[1] from a Caribbean source.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ko.liˈbɾi/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɔ.liˈbɾi/ [kɔ.liˈβɾi]
- Hyphenation: co‧li‧bri
Noun
colibri m (plural colibris)
- hummingbird
- Synonym: beija-flor
References
- ^ “colibri”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Further reading
- “colibri” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “colibri”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French colibri, from a Caribbean source.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ko.liˈbri/
Noun
colibri m (plural colibri)
- hummingbird
- Synonym: pasărea-muscă
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | colibri | colibriul | colibri | colibrii | |
| genitive-dative | colibri | colibriului | colibri | colibrilor | |
| vocative | colibriule | colibrilor | |||
Derived terms
- colibri cioc-de-vultur
- colibri cu coadă încovoiată
- colibri cu coadă-de-rândunică
- colibri cu spadă
- colibri uriaș
- colibri-de-ametist
- colibri-de-topaz
See also
- trohilide
References
- “colibri”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025