The corpus record — Latin

ornithon

ornithon · m

a birdhouse

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Where it lives

Res Rustica, Books I-IX 6 · 0.76/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

ornīthon — Lewis & Short

ornīthon, ōnis, m., = o)rniqw/n,

I a birdhouse, poultry-house (pure Lat. aviarium): ornithonas dico omnium alitum, quae intra parietes villae solent pasci, Varr. R. R. 3, 3, 1; 3, 4, 2; Col. 8, 3, 1.

In the wild

ornithones Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 2.20.2
Ornithon Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.19
ornithone Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 8.8.3
ornithonis Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 8.4.6
ornithonis Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 8.3.1
ornithonis Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 8.10.3

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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