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grus

a crane

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Where it lives

Technopaegnion 2 · 13.47/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

1. grus — Lewis & Short

grus, grŭis (also in the

I nom. sing. gruis, Phaedr. 1, 8, 7), f. (m., Hor. S. 2, 8, 87) [Gr. ge/ranos, akin to ge/rwn], a crane, Plin. 10, 23, 30, § 60; Cic. N. D. 2, 49, 125; Mart. 13, 75; Cels. 2, 18; Lucr. 4, 181; regarded by the Romans as a delicacy, Hor. S. 2, 8, 87; Gell. 7, 16, 5; Stat. S. 4, 6, 8.—

II Transf. (with reference to the form of a crane's bill), a besieging machine, battering-ram, called also corvus, Vitr. 10, 19.

2. grüs — Walde–Hofmann

grüs (gruis Phaedr, u. a.), Gen. gruis f. (m. vereinzelt seit Laber.; Schwanken wie in ss) ,Kranich* (auch „Mauerbrecher“ [vgl. die Parallelen bei Kluge!! s. Kran]; seit Lucil, rom.; dazu gruere dicuntur gruös Paul. Fest 97): aus *grü- (mit altem àü, Solmsen Beitr. 120) zu lit. gerre (*gerau£) lett. dzerve, apr. gerwe , Kranich", aksl Zeravs m. de. (*geröuie-); vgl westläl. kräne ds. (Holthausen IF. 25, 153), ahd. … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. grüs, p. 656]

In the wild

gruis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.10.p13
gruis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.15.p4
gruis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.11.p2
grus Celsus, De Medicina 2.18.p2
gruis Ausonius, Technopaegnion 13.25
grus Ausonius, Technopaegnion 10.12

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. grüs (scan pp. 656-657; entry #1281). Root candidates: *grü-, *geröuie-, *gronon-.

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