1. perdix — Lewis & Short
perdix, īcis, comm., = pe/rdic,
I a partridge, Plin. 10, 33, 51, § 100; Mart. 3, 37, 15: perdicas Boeotios, Varr. ap. Non. 218, 18:
picta,Mart. 3, 58, 15; Vulg. Jer. 17, 11.
The corpus record — Latin
perdix1
perdix1 · comm
a partridge
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Where it lives
- Antoninus Geta 1 · 8.13/10k
- De Re Coquinaria 6 · 3.83/10k
- Antoninus Heliogabalus 2 · 3.45/10k
- Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k
- Naturalis Historia 26 · 0.66/10k
- Epigrammata 3 · 0.53/10k
- Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
- Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k
- Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
What it meant
2. Perdix — Lewis & Short
Perdix, īcis, m. In mythology,
I the nephew of Dœdalus, Ov. M. 8, 241 sq.; Hyg. Fab. 274.
3. perdix — Walde–Hofmann
perdix, -icis.c. „Rebhuhn“ (seit Varro, rom.): aus gr. mépbit, -ikoc m. f., kret, nfjpi£ (Hes.); dies zu mépbopon „farze“, Benennung vom knatternden Aufflug; vgl. als Bed.-Parallelen frz. petrel , Sturmschwalbe* : pétrer „farzen“, alb. Qelene „Bebhuhn“ : elim. , Sausen des Windes“ (Schwentner KZ. 68, 118; nicht nach Charpentier KZ. 47, 175 ff. als ,gesprenkelt" zu gr. rdpbolue „Panther“, ai. pfdakuh m. „Natter“). — … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. perdix, p. 1192]
Where it came from
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. perdix (scan pp. 521-522; entry #8530).
- Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. perdix (scan p. 1192; entry #1987).
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