cradle
→
nest (n.)
2 realizations
MACROAREA: Eurasia
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Latin | |
| lexeme | cunae | |
| meaning 1 | cradle | Post illud nec aves cunas violasse feruntur,/ Et rediit puero, qui fuit ante, color (Ovidius, Fasti, 6, 167) After that, it is said, the birds did not violate the cradle, and to the boy returned his former color. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | nest | Utque malae crimen matris deponat hirundo,/ Sub trabibus cunas, parvaque tecta facit (Ovidius, Tristia, 3, 12, 10) |
| reference | Lewis, Short | |
| comment | ||