1. ortўgĭa — Lewis & Short
ortўgĭa or ortўga, ae, f.o)/rtuc,
I a quail, Hyg. Fab. 53.
The corpus record — Latin
ortўgĭa
ortўgĭa · f
a quail
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What it meant
2. Ortўgĭa — Lewis & Short
Ortўgĭa, ae, or Ortўgĭē, ēs, f., = *)ortugi/a.
I Another name for the isle of Delos, Serv. Verg. A. 3, 72; Ov. M. 15, 337; Fest. p. 183 Müll.—Hence, Ortў-gĭus, a, um, adj., Ortygian:
dea,i. e. Diana, Ov. M. 1, 694: boves, of Apollo, bred in Delos, id. F. 5, 692.—
II An island which forms a part of the city of Syracuse, now Siracusa, Verg. A. 3, 694; Ov. M. 5, 499; id. F. 4, 471.
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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