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The corpus record — Latin

gallinarius

gallinarius · adj

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Where it lives

  • Res Rustica, Books I-IX 5 · 0.64/10k
  • Lucullus 1 · 0.56/10k
  • Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
  • De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k
  • Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k
  • Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

gallīnārĭus — Lewis & Short

gallīnārĭus, a, um, adj.id.,

I of or belonging to poultry.
I Lit.
A Adj.: scala, a poultry-roost, hen-roost, Cels. 8, 15: vasa, for the poultry to drink out of, Col. 8, 8, 5; 8, 10, 6.—
B Subst.
1 gallīnā-rĭus, ii, m., one who attends to poultry, Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 7; Cic. Ac. 2, 26, 86; Plin. 10, 55, 76, § 155.—
2 gallīnārĭum, ii, n., a hen-house, hen-coop, Col. 8, 3, 1; Plin. 17, 9, 6, § 51.—
II Transf., as an adj. prop.
A Gallinaria insula, an island in the Tuscan Sea, now Galinara or Isola d' Albengo, Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 17; Col. 8, 2, 2; Sulp. Sev. Vit. S. Mart. 6.—
B Gallinaria silva, a wood in Campania, near Cumœ, Cic. Fam. 9, 23; cf.: gallinaria pinus, Juv. 3, 307.

In the wild

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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