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hira

hira · f

the empty gut

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Where it lives

Curculio 1 · 1.62/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k

What it meant

hīra — Lewis & Short

hīra, ae, f.,

I the empty gut; called also intestinum jejunum, Gr. nh=stis, Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 6 fin.; Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 23; Arn. 7, 24.

In the wild

Hiram Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 60.12
hirae Plautus, Curculio 2.1

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. hira (scan p. 319; entry #5042).

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