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merula1

blackbird

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Where it lives

Casina 1 · 1.29/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Eunuchus 1 · 0.92/10k
Phormio 1 · 0.92/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Naturalis Historia 14 · 0.35/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
Annales 2 · 0.23/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1 · 0.2/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. merula — de Vaan

merula 'blackbird' [f o] (Naev,+) Derivatives: meruleus 'coloured like a blackbird' (PL)Pit. *mesVla- 'blackbird'. IE cognates: W. mwyalch 'blackbird', Bret. moualcxh < PBrit *mijalx < *me/isal-(s)ka\ Olr. stmolach, EMoIr. smolach, Molr. smol 'blackbird', Molr. smaol 'thrush' < Olr. *smoelach9 gen. smolchae, < *(s)moilax borrowed from Old British *moialx; OHG amsla, ama/i/usla, OE osle 'blackbird' < WGm. *amslon-, … — [de Vaan, s.v. merula, p. 389]

2. mĕrŭla — Lewis & Short

mĕrŭla, ae, f. (post-class. collat. form mĕrŭlus, i, m., Auct. Carm. Philom. 13),

I a blackbird, ousel, merle.

I Lit.: evolare merulas, Cic. Fin. 5, 15, 42: ut merula, quia sola volat, quasi mera volans nominaretur, Quint. 1, 6, 38; cf. Plin. 10, 29, 42, § 80; 10, 30, 45, § 87; 10, 53, 74, § 147.—

II Transf.

A A fish, the sea-carp: merulae virentes, Ov. Hal. 114; cf. Plin. 32, 11, 53, § 149.—

B A kind of hydraulic machine that produced a sound like the note of the blackbird, Vitr. 10, 12.

3. Mĕrŭla — Lewis & Short

Mĕrŭla, ae, m.,

I a Roman surname, e. g.

A Cn. Cornelius Merula, Liv. 33, 55.—

B L. Cornelius Merula, flamen Dialis, Vel. 2, 20; Val. Max. 9, 12, 5; Tac. A. 3, 58, 2.

4. Mĕrŭla — Lewis & Short

Mĕrŭla, ae, m.,

I a river of Liguria, now Arosia, Plin. 3, 5, 7, § 48.

5. merula — Walde–Hofmann

merula, -ae f. (-us m. Suet. Gl. Inschr., verpönt von Gramm.) „Amsel“ (seit Naev., rom. [-a und -us, letzteres vl. auch in der Bed. „Mauerzinne“], meruleus „schwarz wie eine Amsel“ Plaut.; aus merula entl ahd. mörla): nach Fick 1*.515, Kluge!! s. Amsel aus *mesola zu kymr. miwyalch *merula, turdus’, korn. moelh, bret. moualch ,Amsel* (*mesalkä?, Pedersen I 73), ahd. amusla, amsala, ags. ösle (wgerm. *amuslön-, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. merula, p. 983]

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. merula (scan pp. 389-390; entry #1038). Root candidates: *mesVla-, *amslon-, *maison-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. merula (scan p. 424; entry #6798).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. merula (scan pp. 983-985; entry #1757). Root candidates: *amuslön-, *ames-, *omes-.

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