greenfinch

English

a European greenfinch, Chloris chloris

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Germanic *grōniz

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂

Proto-Germanic *-į̄

Proto-West Germanic *-ī

Proto-West Germanic *grōnī

Old English grēne

Middle English grene

English green

Proto-Indo-European *(s)ping-

Proto-Germanic *finkiz

Proto-Indo-European *(s)ping-

Proto-Germanic *finkô

Old English finċ

Middle English fynch

English finch

English greenfinch

Compound of green +‎ finch.

Pronunciation

• (UK, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹiːn.fɪnt͡ʃ/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹin.fɪnt͡ʃ/

• Audio (General American):

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Noun

greenfinch (plural greenfinches)

1. Any bird within the genus Chloris (formerly a subset of the genus Carduelis), small passerine songbirds with yellow-green plumage, found throughout Europe and Asia.
   • 2016 July 14, Peter Davidson, Birds of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 135:

     The Vietnamese Greenfinch is the only greenfinch found in the Da Lat area, and as such is unmistakeable.

   1. European greenfinch, a common Old World finch (Chloris chloris, syn. Carduelis chloris), mainly green with yellow in the wings and tail.

Hypernyms

• finch, passerine, songbird, bird

Hyponyms

• black-headed greenfinch (Chloris ambigua)
• Bonin greenfinch (Chloris kittlitzi)
• European greenfinch (Chloris chloris)
• grey-capped greenfinch (Chloris sinica)
• Oriental greenfinch (Chloris sinica)
• slender-billed greenfinch (Chloris aurelioi)
• Trias greenfinch (Chloris triasi)
• Vietnamese greenfinch (Chloris monguilloti)
• yellow-breasted greenfinch (Chloris spinoides)

 

Translations

genus Chloris

• Albanian: vardua (sq) m
• Asturian: verderón (ast), pardu blancu (ast)
• Breton: meleneg m
• Bulgarian: зеленика f (zelenika)
• Catalan: verdum (ca) m
• Czech: zvonek (cs) m
• Danish: grønirisk (da)
• Dutch: groenling (nl)
• Finnish: viherpeippo (fi)
• French: verdier (fr) m
• Galician: verderolo m, ferreirolo m
• German: Grünfink (de) m, Grünling (de) m
• Greek: φλώρος (el) m (flóros)

  Ancient Greek: χλωρίς f (khlōrís)

• Hungarian: zöldike (hu)
• Icelandic: grænfinka (is) f
• Irish: glasán darach m
• Italian: verdone comune m, verdone (it) m, verdello (it) m
• Latvian: zaļžubīte
• Lithuanian: žaliukė
• Macedonian: зеленушка f (zelenuška)
• Norman: verdgé m, vèrmingnon m
• Norwegian: grønnfink (no)
• Polish: dzwoniec (pl) m
• Portuguese: verdilhão (pt) m
• Romanian: florinte (ro) m
• Romansch: verdaun m
• Russian: зелену́шка (ru) f (zelenúška)
• Scottish Gaelic: corcan glas m, glaisean-daraich m
• Serbo-Croatian: zelentarka (sh) f
• Spanish: verderón (es) m
• Swedish: grönfink (sv)
• Turkish: florya (tr), yelve (tr)
• Welsh: llinos werdd f, gwyrddbinc f

Further reading

• greenfinch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Chloris (Cuvier) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Chloris (Fringillidae) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons