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Latin
Etymology
From līvidus (“bluish”).
Noun
līvia f (genitive līviae); first declension
- (Medieval Latin) pigeon
- Synonym: columba
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- livia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “livia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers