The corpus record

χᾰραδρ-ιός

charadrios · ὁ

bird, thick-knee, Norfolk plover, Charadrius oedicnemus

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Where it lives

Leviticus 1 · 0.53/10k
Deuteronomium 1 · 0.45/10k
Gorgias 1 · 0.38/10k

What it meant — LSJ

bird, thick-knee, Norfolk plover, Charadrius oedicnemus

a bird, prob. the thick-knee or Norfolk plover, Charadrius oedicnemus, Ar. Av. 266, 1141, Hp. Int. 37, Arist. HA 593b15, 615a1, LXX Le. 11.19, De. 14.17(18); it was very greedy, hence prov. χαραδριοῦ βίον ζῆν, of a glutton, Pl. Grg. 494b; the sight of it was held to be a cure for the jaundice, cf. Hippon. 52, Plu. QConv. 2.681c, Ael. NA 17.13.

In the wild

χαραδριοῦ · charadriou Plato, Gorgias 494
χαραδριὸν · charadrion Septuaginta, Deuteronomium 14
χαραδριὸν · charadrion Septuaginta, Leviticus 11

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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