ciconia

From Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n- (“to sing”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kiˈkoː.ni.a/, [kɪˈkoːniä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈko.ni.a/, [t͡ʃiˈkɔːniä]

cicōnia f (genitive cicōniae); first declension

1. stork
2. a derisive gesture made with the fingers
3. a T-shaped instrument used to measure depth of furrows
4. a transverse pole, mounted on a post, for drawing water

First-declension noun.

• cicōnīnus

• “ciconia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ciconia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ciconia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• ciconia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “ciconia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 525