The corpus record — Latin

gallicinium

gallicinium · n

cock-crowing

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

gallĭcĭnĭum — Lewis & Short

gallĭcĭnĭum, ii, n.1. gallus-cano,

I cock-crowing, used only transf. as a specification of time, for the last watch of the night, the break of day, early dawn: noctis gallicinio venit quidam juvenis, App. M. 8 init.; Amm. 22, 14; Macr. S. 1, 3; Censor. de Die Nat. 24.—Plur., Petr. 62, 3.

In the wild

gallicinio Apuleius, Metamorphoses 8.1.p1

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.