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icterus

icterus · m

a yellow bird

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Where it lives

What it meant

ictĕrus — Lewis & Short

ictĕrus, i, m., = i)/kteros,

I a yellow bird, otherwise unknown, the sight of which was said to cure the jaundice (i)/kteros), Plin. 30, 11, 29, § 94.

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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