The corpus record — Latin

upupa

hoopoe; kind of pickaxe

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Where it lives

Captivi 1 · 1.16/10k
Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

1. upupa — de Vaan

upupa 'hoopoe; kind of pickaxe' [f. a] (Varro+; PL) ; IE cognates: Gr. έποποΐ ποποπό 'cry of the hoopoe', £ποψ, -οπός 'hoopoe', Arm. popop, Po. hupek, LG Hupphupp, ORG wituhopfo, OS widohoppa 'hoopoe'. Onomatopoeic word, found in many languages in a similar form. Bibl.: WH II: 837, EM 754, IEW 325. — [de Vaan, s.v. upupa, p. 657]

2. upŭpa — Lewis & Short

upŭpa, ae, f.e)/poy.

I Lit., a hoopoe, Plin. 10, 29, 44, § 86; 10, 25, 36, § 73; Varr. L. L. 5, § 75 Müll.; cf. epops.—

II Transf., a kind of hoe or mattock, Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 7.

In the wild

upupae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.25
upupae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.10.p40
upupa Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.29.p4
upupa Plautus, Captivi 5.4
Upupae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.6.p4
upupa Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.30.p69

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. upupa (scan p. 657; entry #1887).
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. upupa (scan p. 778; entry #12977).

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