The story
- Latin · borrowed fromtrochilus“a small bird”
- English todaytrochil
From Latin trochilus (“a small bird”, probably applied to a wren).
Words from the same roots
Latintrochilus all →
trochilus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
trochil
Today it means: The crocodile bird, Pluvianus aegyptius. Full definition →
Latin trochilus