# finch
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English fynch, from Old English finċ, from Proto-West Germanic *finki, from Proto-Germanic *finkiz (compare Dutch vink, German Fink), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pingos (“chaffinch”). Compare Welsh pinc (“finch”), Ancient Greek σπίγγος (spíngos, “chaffinch”), Russian пе́нка (pénka, “wren”), Sanskrit फिङ्गक (phiṅgaka, “drongo, shrike”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɪnt͡ʃ/
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* Rhymes: -ɪntʃ

### Noun

finch (plural finches)
* Any Eurasian goldfinch (of species Carduelis carduelis, syn. Fringilla carduelis).
* Any bird of the family Fringillidae, seed-eating passerine birds, native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and usually having a conical beak.
* Any bird of other families of similar appearance to members of family Fringillidae.

#### Derived terms

* Abert's finch (Pipilo aberti)
* Baltimore finch
* Bengalese finch (Lonchura striata domestica)
* blue finch (Porphyrospiza caerulescens)
* bramble finch (Fringilla montifringilla)
* brambling finch
* brushfinch
* bullfinch (Pyrrhula spp.)
* canary finch (Serinus spp.)
* Cassin finch
* Cassin's finch (Haemorhous cassinii)
* chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
* cherry finch (Coccothraustes vulgaris)
* citril finch (Carduelis citrinella)
* Cocos finch (Pinaroloxias inomata)
* cold-finch
* copper finch (Fringilla coelebs)
* Corsican finch (Carduelis corsicana)
* cowfinch
* crimson-browed finch (Carpodacus subhimachalus)
* crimson finch (Neochmia phaeton)
* crimson-winged finch (Rhodopechys spp.)
* cuckoo-finch (Anomalospiza imberbis)
* cut-throat finch (Amadina fasciata)
* Darwin's finch (Geospizinae spp.)
* desert finch (Rhodospiza obsoleta)
* double-barred finch (Stizoptera bichenovii)
* estrilid finch (Estrildidae spp.)
* European finch (Chloris spp.)
* fallowfinch
* fallow finch (Saxicola oenanthe)
* finchbill
* finchery
* finchlike
* firefinch
* fire finch (Pyromelana spp., Euplectes spp.)
* Galapagos finch (Geospizinae spp.)
* goldfinch (Carduelis spp., Spinus spp.)
* gold-naped finch, golden-naped finch (Pyrrhoplectes epauletta)
* Gough finch (Rowetha goughensis)
* Gouldian finch, Gould's finch, Lady Gouldian finch (Chloebia gouldiae)
* greenfinch (Chloris spp.)
* ground finch
* hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes)
* house finch
* koa finch
* masked finch (Poephila personata)
* melba finch
* mountain finch (Leucosticte spp.; Fringilla montifringilla)
* oriole finch (Linurgus olivaceus)
* owl finch (Stizoptera bichenovii)
* painted finch
* parrotfinch
* pinefinch
* Przewalski's finch
* purple finch
* rainbow finch (Chloebia gouldiae)
* red-browed finch (Neochmia temporalis)
* redfinch
* rockfinch
* rosefinch (Carpodacus spp.)
* rosy finch (Leucosticte spp.)
* scarlet finch (Carpodacus sipahi)
* sharp-beaked ground finch
* snowfinch
* society finch (Lonchura striata domestica)
* spectacled finch (Callacanthis burtoni)
* star finch
* stormfinch
* thistlefinch
* trumpeter finch Bucanetes githagineus)
* vampire ground finch
* warbler-finch
* weaver finch (Ploceidae spp.)
* yellow-rumped finch
* zebra finch

#### See also

* aberdevine
* amadavat
* avadavat
* brambling
* canary
* crossbill (Loxia spp.)
* euphonia
* redpoll (Acanthis spp.)
* serin
* siskin

### Verb

finch (third-person singular simple present finches, present participle finching, simple past and past participle finched)
* To hunt for finches, to go finching.

### References

* finch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* “finch”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “finch”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

## Middle English
### Noun

finch
* Alternative form of fynch