Meaning of cavannus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. tawny owl
   declension-2, masculine
2. Equivalent to 'tawny owl': Any of species Strix aluco of strigid owls, of Europe, western Asia, and the Middle East.

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Examples

“Sunt qui ululas putent aves esse nocturnas, ab ululatu vocis quem efferunt, quas vulgo cavannos dicunt.”

There are those who think that [tawny] owls, popularly called cavanni, are nocturnal birds named from the cry that they produce.

“Ululae: aves de ululatu dictae, cuius deminutivum est uluccus, sicut Itali dicunt; quam avem Galli cavannum nuncupant.”

Ululae: birds named from their cry, the diminutive of which [word] is uluccus, as the Italians say; this bird the Gauls name cavannus.

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