The corpus record — Latin

gavia

gavia · f

a bird

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

gāvĭa — Lewis & Short

gāvĭa, ae, f. (=la/ros),

I a bird, perh. the seamew, Plin. 10, 32, 48, § 91; 10, 74, 95, § 204; App. M. 5, p. 171.

In the wild

gavia Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.74.p2
gavia Apuleius, Metamorphoses 5.28
gaviae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.35.p11
gaviae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.32.p2

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.