noun · masculinethird declension
palumbēs
palumbēs m or f (genitive palumbis)
Classical[paˈɫʊm.beːs]Ecclesiastical[paˈlum.bes]
palumbus
Meaning
- turtle dove, ring dove
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | — | palumbī |
| genitive | palumbī | palumbium palumbōrum |
| dative | palumbō | palumbibus |
| accusative | palumbem palumbum | palumbōs |
| ablative | palumbō | palumbibus |
| vocative | palumbe | palumbī |
pălumbes, is, or pălumbis, is, m. and f. (collat. form pălumbus, i, m., Cato, R. R. 90; Col. 8, 8; Mart. 13, 67, 1: pălumba, ae, f., Cels. 6, 6, 39) [cf. Sanscr. kadamba, diver; Gr. κόλυμβος, columba],
I. a woodpigeon, ring-dove: macrosque palumbes, Lucil. ap. Non. 219, 6; Pompon. ib. 9; Varr. R. R. 3, 9; Cic. poët. ap. Serv. Verg. E. 1, 58:
raucae, tua cura, palumbes, Verg. E. 1, 58: aëriae palumbes, id. ib. 3, 69: fronde novā puerum palumbes Texere, Hor. C. 3, 4, 12; cf. id. S. 2, 8, 91.—Prov.: palumbem alicui ad aream adducere, to furnish one a good opportunity to do a thing, to bring the fish to one's net, Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 63: duae unum expetitis palumbem, the same cock-pigeon, i. e. the same lover, id. Bacch. 1, 1, 17.—Palumbus was also the name of a gladiator; hence, in a double sense: Palumbum postulantibus daturum se promisit, si captus esset, Suet. Claud. 21.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
palumbēs is, m and f
2 PAL-, a woodpigeon, ring-dove : raucae palumbes, V., H.
Origins
Uncertain. Possibly a derivative of Proto-Italic *palwos, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥H-wo- (“dark-colored, gray”), from *pelH- (“gray, pale”), owing to the color of the pigeon's plumage. Compare Ancient Greek πέλειᾰ (péleiă, “rock pigeon”) and Old Prussian poalis (“pigeon”); see palleō (“to be pale”) for more potential cognates. However, the suffix is unexplained and resembles that in Ancient Greek κολυμβῐ́ς (kolumbĭ́s, “diver, little grebe, pigeon”), which may point to substrate origin.