The corpus record — Latin

ganta

ganta · f

a goose

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

ganta — Lewis & Short

ganta, ae, f.old Germ.; the mod. Gans,

I a goose: (anseres) e Germania laudatissimi. Candidi ibi, verum minores, gantae vocantur, Plin. 10, 22, 27, § 54; Ven. Carm. 7, 4, 6: ganta xhnalw/phz, Gloss. Philox.

In the wild

gantae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.22.p3

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. ganta (scan p. 291; entry #4558).

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