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hirundo

hirundo · f

a swallow

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Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 9.12/10k
Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Florida 2 · 2.54/10k
De Paenitentia 1 · 2.45/10k
Octavius 2 · 1.72/10k
Rudens 2 · 1.69/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Naturalis Historia 55 · 1.39/10k
Ars Amatoria 2 · 1.34/10k
Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. hĭrundo — Lewis & Short

hĭrundo, ĭnis, f. (weakened from xelidw/n),

I a swallow.

I Lit., Plin. 10, 33, 49, § 92; 10, 24, 34, § 70; Plaut. Rud. 3, 1, 12; Verg. G. 1, 377; id. A. 12, 474; Ov. F. 2, 853; Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 13.—As a term of endearment: dic me anaticulam, columbam vel catellum, Hirundinem, monedulam, etc., Plaut. As. 3, 3, 104.—Prov.: quid contendat hirundo cycnis? Lucr. 3, 6 (for which: certent cycnis ululae, Verg. E. 8, 55).—

II Transf., a flying sea - fish, sea - swallow, Exocoetus volitans s. evolans, Linn.; Plin. 9, 26, 43, § 81.

2. hirundo — Walde–Hofmann

hirundo (-&-, ALL. 14, 409), -inis f. (m. Marc. med. 15, 9?, doch s. RhM. 72, 279) „Schwalbe“ (seit Plaut., rom. (neben *har-], ebenso *hirundula; hirundininus seit Plt, vgl. asininus, Liechtenhan Sprchl. Bem. zu Marc. 62f.; hirundinus Plin. Val. 2, 22, wenn richtig überlief., mit Haplologie], hirundineus Sidon. epist. 2, 14, 2, Isid. 18, 6, 7, dazu hirundinia f. „Schwalbenkraut* — xelıdöviov Diosc): nach Persson … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. hirundo, p. 684]

In the wild

hirundini Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.60.p1
hirundinum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 25.8.p10
hirundinum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.31.p1
hirundinis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.15.p6
hirundinum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.33.p1
hirundinem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.24.p1

6 of 89 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. hirundo (scan p. 684; entry #1324). Root candidates: *har-, *ghers-, *ger-.

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