ardea

Cognate with Ancient Greek ἐρῳδιός (erōidiós, “heron”) and Serbo-Croatian róda (“stork”), either from a Proto-Indo-European root^[1] or more likely a common Mediterranean substrate source, as suggested by the irregular vowel variation and the limited distribution of cognates.^[2][3]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈar.de.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈar.d̪e.a]

ardea f (genitive ardeae); first declension

1. heron
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 1.359–364:

     Iam sibi tum a curvis male temperat unda carinis,
     Cum medio celeres revolant ex aequore mergi
     Clamoremque ferunt ad litora, cumque marinae
     in sicco ludunt fulicae, notasque paludes
     Deserit atque altam supra volat ardea nubem.

     See the billowing waves not spare the curved-keeled boats, as quick loons fly back from the deep and let resound their cry towards the shore, as the coot solaces on dry land and herons leave the ponds they know so well and take to the heights, towering over the clouds.

First-declension noun.

• ardeola

• “ardea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ardea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ardea”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “ardea”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ardea”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “ardea”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

• IPA^(key): [arˈde̯a]

ardea

1. third-person singular imperfect indicative of arde