Etymology

trochilus

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Today it means: Any member of the hummingbird genus Trochilus. Full definition →

Latin trochilus ← Ancient Greek τροχίλος
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromτροχίλος
  2. Latin · borrowed fromtrochilus“a kind of small bird”
  3. English todaytrochilus

From Latin trochilus (“a kind of small bird”), from Ancient Greek τροχίλος (trokhílos), from τρέχω (trékhō, “to run”).

Words from the same roots

Latintrochilus all →

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Ancient Greekτροχίλος all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.