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- Latin · calque ofrāra avis
- English todayrare bird
Calque of Latin rāra avis, part of a commonly quoted line from Juvenal's Satire VI: rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cygno ("a bird as rare upon the earth as a black swan").
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.