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The corpus record — Latin

querquedula

querquedula · f

a kind of duck

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Where it lives

What it meant

querquedŭla — Lewis & Short

querquedŭla, ae, f.from the Gr. kerkouri/s, Varr. L. L. 5, § 79, acc. to O. Müller's conjecture,

I a kind of duck, perh. the teal, Varr. R. R. 3, 3, 3; 3, 11, 4; Col. 8, 15, 1: aquatiles querquedulae, Varr. ap. Non. 91, 4.

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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