rubecula

Etymology
Derived in some way from the root of. In the context of William Turner's Avium Praecipuarum (1544) it translates, a bird name used by Aristotle. The Latin form of the name seems to have been coined by Theodorus Gaza for his translation of Aristotle’s Historia animalium in 1476; it is possible that he interpreted (an alternative manuscript reading of the Greek name) as a compound of  and  and created the Latin form as a compound ending in. Alternatively, it may be an irregularly formed diminutive (with the ending ). The feminine gender may follow that of the hypernym.

Noun

 * 1)  The European robin