The corpus record — Latin

junix

junix · f

a young cow, a calf, heifer

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Where it lives

Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Miles Gloriosus 1 · 0.79/10k

What it meant

jūnix — Lewis & Short

jūnix, or uncontr. jŭvĕnix, īcis, f.juvenix,

I a young cow, a calf, heifer: tot tibi cum in flammas junicum omenta liquescant, Pers. 2, 47.—In the form juvenix, of a maiden (cf.: da/malis, juvenca): quam mox horsum ad stabulum juvenix recipiat se pabulo, Plaut. Mil. 2, 3, 38 Ritschl. dub. (MSS. juvenis).

In the wild

iuuenix Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 2.3
iunicum Persius, Saturae 2.47

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.