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The corpus record — Latin

cădāvĕrīnus

cădāvĕrīnus · adj

of carrion

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What it meant

cădāvĕrīnus — Lewis & Short

cădāvĕrīnus, a, um, adj.cadaver,

I of carrion: nidores, Aug. Civ. Dei, 9, 16.— Hence, subst.: cădāvĕrīna, ae, f. (sc. caro), the flesh of a carcass, Tert. Anim. 32, 9.

Where it came from

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

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.