The corpus record — Latin

galeritus

galeritus · adj

that wears a hood

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Where it lives

Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

gălērītus — Lewis & Short

gălērītus, a, um, adj.id.,

I that wears a hood.

I Lit.: prima galeritus posuit praetoria Lygmon, i. e. a peasant, rustic, Prop. 4 (5), 1, 29.—

II Transf.: galerita avis, the crested lark, Alauda cristata, Linn.; Plin. 11, 37, 44, § 121; 30, 7, 20, § 62; called also, subst.: galeritus, i, m. (sc. ales), Varr. L. L. 5, § 76 Müll.

In the wild

galeritus Propertius, Elegiae 4.1.29
galerita Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.49.p2
galerita Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.30.p60
galerita Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.7.p2
galerita Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.37.p2

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.