pheasant
oriental name of the pheasant, Pamphil. ap. Ath. 9.387e; cf. τέταρος, τέτραξ. (Cf. Mod. Pers. tedzrev ‘pheasant’, Lith. teterva ‘black grouse’, etc.: the bird τέταρος was imported from Media acc. to Ath. 14.654c.)
The corpus record
τατύρας
taturas · ὁ
pheasant
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.