The corpus record — Latin

zўgĭa

zўgĭa · adj

A tree

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What it meant

zўgĭa — Lewis & Short

zўgĭa, ae, f., = zugi/a (prop. an adj. from zu/gios, belonging to or fit for yokes).

I A tree, called also carpinus, horn-beam: Carpinus betulus, Linn.; Plin. 16, 15, 26, § 67.—

II Zygia tibia, a nuptial or marriage flute, App. M. 4, p. 157, 37.

Where it came from

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

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.