The corpus record — Latin

ornithias

ornithias · m

the bird-wind

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Where it lives

De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

ornīthĭas — Lewis & Short

ornīthĭas, ae, m., = o)rniqi/as,

I the bird-wind, a wind that blows in spring and brings with it the birds of passage: Favonium quidam a. d. VIII. Cal. Mart. Chelidoniam vocant, ab hirundinis visu: nonnulli vero Ornithian, uno et sexagesimo die post brumam, ab adventu avium, flantem per dies novem, Plin. 2, 47, 47, § 122; Vitr. 1, 6; App. Mund. p. 62; Col. 11, 2, 21.—The Etesiae are also sometimes called Ornithiae, Plin. 2, 47, 47, § 127.

In the wild

ornithiae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.47.p3
ornithian Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.47.p2
ornithiae Vitruvius, De Architectura 1.6.10

Where it came from

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