volucrum

Latin

Etymology 1

Seemingly a late variant of involūcrum (“covering, wrapping”).

Noun

volūcrum n (genitive volūcrī); second declension^[1] (Medieval Latin)

purse
- c. 538 CE – 594 CE, Gregory of Tours, Libri Historiarum 5:
  Ostendebat enim nobis ante die tertia rex duo volucra, species et diversis ornamentis referta, quae praeciebantur amplius quam tria milia solidorum; sed et saccolum cum nummismati auri pondere, tendentem quasi duo milia.
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Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	volūcrum	volūcra
genitive	volūcrī	volūcrōrum
dative	volūcrō	volūcrīs
accusative	volūcrum	volūcra
ablative	volūcrō	volūcrīs
vocative	volūcrum	volūcra

Etymology 2

Noun

volucrum

genitive plural of volucris

Adjective

volucrum

genitive masculine/feminine plural of volucer
- 8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 2.234:
  Tum vero Phaethon cunctis e partibus orbem
  adspicit accensum nec tantos sustinet aestus
  ferventisque auras velut e fornace profunda
  ore trahit currusque suos candescere sentit;
  et neque iam cineres eiectatamque favillam
  ferre potest calidoque involvitur undique fumo,
  quoque eat aut ubi sit, picea caligine tectus
   nescit et arbitrio volucrum raptatur equorum.
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- 8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 4.245:
  Dissipat hunc radiis Hyperione natus iterque
  dat tibi, qua possis defossos promere vultus;
  nec tu iam poteras enectum pondere terrae
  tollere, nympha, caput corpusque exsangue iacebas:
  nil illo fertur volucrum moderator equorum
  post Phaethonteos vidisse dolentius ignes.
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- c. 45 CE – 96 CE, Statius, Thebais 10.228:
  Vertice sic Pholoes volucrum nutritor equorum,
  cum fetura gregem pecoroso vere novauit,
  laetatur cernens hos montis in ardua niti,
  hos innare vadis, certare parentibus illos;
  tunc vacuo sub corde movet, qui molle domandi
  ferre iugum, qui terga boni, quis in arma tubasque
  natus, ad Eleas melior quis surgere palmas:
  talis erat turmae ductor longaeuus Achivae.
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- c. 370 CE – 404 CE, Claudius Claudianus, De Raptu Proserpinae 3.431:^[2]
  Quis currus? Ferus ipse quis est? Terraene, marisne
  incola? Quae volucrum deprendam signa rotarum?
  1922 translation by M. Platnauer
  What chariot was it? Who was that cruel ravisher? A denizen of earth or sea? What traces of his wingèd wheels can I discover?

References

^ "volucrum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
^ Claudian. On Stilicho's Consulship 2-3. Panegyric on the Sixth Consulship of Honorius. The Gothic War. Shorter Poems. Rape of Proserpina. Translated by M. Platnauer. Loeb Classical Library 136, first published by Harvard University Press, 1922. Republished online at LacusCurtius by Bill Thayer.

[1] "volucrum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

[2] Claudian. On Stilicho's Consulship 2-3. Panegyric on the Sixth Consulship of Honorius. The Gothic War. Shorter Poems. Rape of Proserpina. Translated by M. Platnauer. Loeb Classical Library 136, first published by Harvard University Press, 1922. Republished online at LacusCurtius by Bill Thayer.

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