trochilus

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɒkɪləs/

trochilus (plural trochiluses or trochili)

1. (zoology) Any member of the hummingbird genus Trochilus.
2. (architecture) a scotia.

• “trochilus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τροχίλος (trokhílos), from τρέχω (trékhō).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtrɔ.kʰɪ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪rɔː.ki.lus]

trochilus m (genitive trochilī); second declension

1. A kind of small bird
2. (architecture) trochilus

Second-declension noun.

• “trochilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “trochilus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.