vireo

From translingual Vireo (genus name), from Latin vireō (“I am green”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.ɹi.oʊ/

vireo (plural vireos or vireoes)

1. Any of a number of small insectivorous passerine birds, of the genus Vireo, that have grey-green plumage.
   • 1998, Sally Roth, Attracting Birds to Your Backyard, page 257:

     The voices of male vireos are a constant in the spring woodland, providing background music to the longer, prettier songs of tanagers and thrushes. Vireos tend to sing in bursts interrupted by short or long pauses.

   • 2007, Jonathan Elphick, The Atlas of Bird Migration: Tracing the Great Journeys of the World's Birds, page 72:

     Uniquely American, the vireos are a group of some 46 foliage-gleaning forest birds with uncertain family connections. Vireo species are about equally divided between North and South America, with one, the Black-whiskered Vireo, largely restricted to the West Indies. Several vireos make long migratory journeys; all are nocturnal migrants.

   • 2012, Eloise Potter, Birds of the Carolinas, Easyread Large Edition, page 94,

     This^{[the white-eyed vireo]} is our only vireo that has two white wing bars, yellow spectacles, and yellow sides.

2. Any bird of the family Vireonidae, which includes vireos, shrike-vireos, greenlets, and peppershrikes.
   • 1950, Ernest Sheldon Booth, Birds of the West, page 282:

     Family Vireonidae
     Vireos
     The vireos are slim grayish green birds that stay high up in the trees most of the time.

The alternative plural form vireoes appears to be relatively rare and dated.

• Vireo (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Vireo on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Vireo on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

From translingual Vireo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋireo/, [ˈʋire̞o̞]
• Rhymes: -ireo
• Hyphenation^(key): vi‧reo

vireo

1. vireo (bird of the genus Vireo)

• viero

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯i.re.oː/, [ˈu̯ɪreoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.re.o/, [ˈviːreo]

From Proto-Italic *wizēō, from Proto-Indo-European *wiséh₁yeti, from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to increase”). See also Old English wise (“stalk, sprout”), Old Norse visir (“sprout, bud”), Lithuanian veisti (“propagate”).

vireō (present infinitive virēre, perfect active viruī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

1. to be verdant, green; to sprout new green growth
2. to flourish; to be lively, vigorous

Conjugation of vireō (second conjugation, no supine stem, active only)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	vireō	virēs	viret	virēmus	virētis	virent
	imperfect	virēbam	virēbās	virēbat	virēbāmus	virēbātis	virēbant
	future	virēbō	virēbis	virēbit	virēbimus	virēbitis	virēbunt
	perfect	viruī	viruistī	viruit	viruimus	viruistis	viruērunt, viruēre
	pluperfect	virueram	viruerās	viruerat	viruerāmus	viruerātis	viruerant
	future perfect	viruerō	virueris	viruerit	viruerimus	virueritis	viruerint
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	viream	vireās	vireat	vireāmus	vireātis	vireant
	imperfect	virērem	virērēs	virēret	virērēmus	virērētis	virērent
	perfect	viruerim	viruerīs	viruerit	viruerīmus	viruerītis	viruerint
	pluperfect	viruissem	viruissēs	viruisset	viruissēmus	viruissētis	viruissent
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	virē	—	—	virēte	—
	future	—	virētō	virētō	—	virētōte	virentō
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		virēre	viruisse	—	—	—	—
participles		virēns	—	—	—	—	—
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		virendī	virendō	virendum	virendō	—	—

• virectum
• viridis
• viror

vireō m (genitive vireōnis); third declension

1. a bird, probably the greenfinch

Third-declension noun.

• → English: vireo
• ⇒ Spanish: verderón

• “vireo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vireo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vireo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) bodily strength: vires corporis or merely vires
    
  • (ambiguous) to gain strength: vires colligere
    
  • (ambiguous) to lose strength: vires aliquem deficiunt
    
  • (ambiguous) as long as one's strength holds out: dum vires suppetunt
    
  • (ambiguous) to become old and feeble: vires consenescunt