The corpus record — Latin

ăcanthis

ăcanthis · f

A little bird of a dark-green color

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

What it meant

ăcanthis — Lewis & Short

ăcanthis, ĭdis, f., = a)kanqi/s.

I A little bird of a dark-green color, that lives in the thorn bushes, the thistle-finch or goldfinch (pure Lat. carduelis): Fringilla carduelis, Linn.; Plin. 10, 63, 83, § 175; 10, 74, 95, § 205.—

II A plant, called also senecio, groundsel, Plin. 25, 13, 106, § 168.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.