The corpus record — Latin

gallinaceus

gallinaceus · adj

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Where it lives

Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
Pescennius Niger 2 · 8.78/10k
Vitellius 2 · 8.31/10k
Helvius Pertinax 1 · 3.85/10k
Tacitus 1 · 3.24/10k
Alexander Severus 3 · 2.81/10k
Probus 1 · 2.43/10k
Satyricon 7 · 2.3/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
Curculio 1 · 1.62/10k
Naturalis Historia 58 · 1.46/10k

Densest 12 of 28 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — Lewis & Short

gallīnācĕus (-acius, Bücheler, Rhein. Mus. 20, 441; Wagner ad a, um, adj.gallina, 1. gallus,

Plaut. Aul. 462),

I of or belonging to domestic fowls or poultry: gallus, a poultry-cock, dunghill-cock, Plaut. Aul. 3, 4, 7; Lucil. ap. Non. 427, 26; Cic. Div. 1, 34, 74; 2, 26, 56; id. Mur. 29, 61; for which also absol.: gallīnācĕus, i, m., Plin. 37, 10, 54, § 144: gallinacei mares salacissimi, Col. 8, 2, 9; cf. salacitas, of cocks, id. 8, 11, 5: pulli, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 69; id. Curc. 3, 80; Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 10; Col. 8, 11, 13: genus, id. 8, 5, 10.—Prov.: ut vel lactis gallinacei sperare possis haustum, i. e. something uncommon, Plin. H. N. praef. § 23. —

II Transf., of plants.

(a) Cunila gallinacea, Gr. koni/lh, a kind of savory, Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 90; Plin. 20, 16, 62, § 170.—

(b) Pedes gallinacei, chicken-feet, fumitory, Plin. 25, 13, 98, § 155.

In the wild

gallinacei Plautus, Curculio 3.1
gallinaceo Apuleius, Metamorphoses 9.33
gallinacei Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 8.11.13
gallinaceum Celsus, De Medicina 5.27.p4
gallinacea Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.20.p67
gallinacei Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 8.11.11

6 of 110 attestations shown.

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.