The corpus record — Latin

ortўgŏmētra

ortўgŏmētra · f

quail-mother

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What it meant

ortўgŏmētra — Lewis & Short

ortўgŏmētra, ae, f., = o)rtugomh/tra,

I quail-mother, a bird that leads the quails in their migrations across the sea, the landrail: ortygometrā duce, Plin. 10, 23, 33, § 66.—

II Transf., a quail, Tert. adv. Psych. 16; Vulg. Sap. 16, 2; 19, 12.

Where it came from

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