OTIS a town on the Euphrates below Babylon, just above the commencement of the Babylonian Marshes. (Plin. Nat. 5.26.)[V]
ōtis, ĭdis, f., = ὠτίς, a species of bustard , Plin. 10, 22, 29, § 57; 30, 14, 45, § 131. ...
A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
·noun A genus of birds including the bustards. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language