The corpus record — Latin

ficedula

ficedula · f

a small bird

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Where it lives

Clodius Albinus 1 · 3.7/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

fīcē^dŭla — Lewis & Short

fīcē^dŭla (also written ficetula and ficecula; cf. Lachm. ad ae, f.id.,

Lucr. p. 205),

I a small bird, the fig-pecker, becafico, Motacilla ficedula, Linn.; Varr. L. L. 5, § 76 Müll.; id. ap. Non. 48, 20; Lucil. ib. p. 274, 11; Plin. 10, 29, 44, § 86; Mart. 13, 49 in lemm.; 13, 5; Juv. 14, 9; Petr. 33; Gell. 15, 18, 2.

In the wild

ficedulas Juvenal, Saturae 5.14.9
ficedulam Petronius, Satyricon 33
ficedula Celsus, De Medicina 2.18.p7
ficedulam Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 15.8.2
ficedula Martial, Epigrammata 13.5.1
ficedulae Suetonius, Tiberius 42.2

6 of 7 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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