orthŏpȳgĭum — Lewis & Short
orthŏpȳgĭum, ĭi, n., = o)rqopu/gion,
I the rump and tail feathers of birds, Mart. 3, 93, 12 (al. orrhopygium = o)rropu/gion, of the same meaning).
The corpus record — Latin
orthopygium
orthopygium · n
the rump and tail feathers of birds
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Where it lives
- Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- orthopygium Martial, Epigrammata 3.93.12
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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