The corpus record — Latin

gannitus

gannitus · m

a yelping

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Where it lives

Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

gannītus — Lewis & Short

gannītus, ūs, m.gannio,

I a yelping or barking of dogs.

I Lit., Lucr. 5, 1070.—

II Transf.

A Of sparrows, a chirping, twittering, App. M. 6, p. 175.—

B Of persons, a snarling, grumbling: gannitibus lacessere, Mart. 5, 60, 21; a chattering, tattling, App. M. 6, p. 185; a whining, moaning: tristis Nerēidis morientis, Plin. 9, 5, 4, § 9.

In the wild

gannitibus Apuleius, Metamorphoses 6.27
gannitibus Martial, Epigrammata 5.60.2
gannitibus Apuleius, Metamorphoses 4.1
gannitibus Ausonius, Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 106.4

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.