clisterella

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Cognates and/or descendants possibly include: French crécerelle f and cristel m; Neapolitan castariello m and crestariello m; Middle English castrel, English kestrel.

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /klis.teˈrel.la/, [klist̪eˈrɛlːä]

clisterella f (genitive clisterellæ); first declension (Medieval Latin)

1. (ornithology, hunting) kestrel
   • 13th century, Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, De arte venandi cum avibus, liber I, 49:

     Hoc faciunt precipue ille que dicuntur clisterelle

     This is the habit especially of those called kestrels.

   • 13th century, Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, De arte venandi cum avibus, liber I, 50:

     Quedam magis utuntur muribus campestribus, lacertis, ranis, scarabeis, brucis, locustis et similibus, ut ille aves, que dicuntur albani, et ut ille, que dicuntur besardi et clisterele.

     Certain others prefer field mice, lizards, frogs, beetles, grasshoppers, locusts, and the like, including those birds called harriers^{(cf. It. albanella)}, and those called buzzards^{(cf. Fr. busard)} and kestrels.

First-declension noun.

Only attested in the nominative pl. with -æ spelt as -e.