1. ōtus — Lewis & Short
ōtus, i, m., = w)=tos or w)to/s,
I a kind of owl, the horned owl, Plin. 10, 23, 33, § 66.
The corpus record — Latin
Otus2
Otus2 · m
a kind of owl
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Where it lives
- Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
- de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
- Hercules Oetaeus 1 · 0.89/10k
- Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
- Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
- Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
- Naturalis Historia 8 · 0.2/10k
- Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
- Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
What it meant
2. ōtus — Lewis & Short
ōtus (also ōtos, ōthos, and Oetus), i, m.,
I the name of a giant:
immanis Otos,Verg. Cul. 233; cf. Hyg. Fab. 28.
In the wild
- otus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.10.p37
- oto Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.37.p10
- Otos Appendix Vergiliana, Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 234
- Oete Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 15.143
- otus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.23.p4
- Otene Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 12.13.p2
6 of 18 attestations shown.
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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