ortolann.

Etymology: < Middle French hortolan gardener (c1300 in Old French as ortellain ; compare Middle French ortolaine , feminine (c1500)), Middle French hortolan , French ortolan denoting the European bird (1552 in Rabelais, after Italian ortolano (a1484 in this sense); the bird is so called because it frequents gardens), French ortolan denoting a North American bird (1658 in the passage translated in quot. 1666 at sense 2) < classical Latin hortulānus gardener (see hortulan adj.). Compare Spanish hortelano (1141 as †ortelano ; also as †ortolano (1148)), Occitan ortolan , ortalan (a1149 in Old Occitan as ortolan ), Portuguese hortelão (1262 as †ortolam ), Catalan hortalà (1275 as †ortalà ), Italian ortolano (a1321), all earliest in sense 1.As a bird name, the word occurred first (in Italian and then in French) as a European bird name, and was subsequently transferred (apparently first in French) to various North American birds, although in English the transferred application to North American birds appears to have been borrowed at approximately the same time as the application to a European bird.