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acipenser

acipenser · m

a fish very highly esteemed in the age of the greatest luxury of the Romans

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

1. ăcĭpenser — Lewis & Short

ăcĭpenser, ĕris, and ăcĭpensis, is (also aquip., not accipenser), m., = a)kki^phsi/os,

I a fish very highly esteemed in the age of the greatest luxury of the Romans, perh. the sturgeon, Cic. Tusc. 3, 18; id. Fin. 2, 8; Hor. S. 2, 2, 47; Ov. Hal. 132.

2. acipénser — Walde–Hofmann

acipénser, -erís m., älter acu-, daneben agui- (durch Anlehnung an aqua, Weise BB. 5, 78; seit Plaut., rom. [uf neben germ. *sturio; Nbf. acipensis Mart., sptl. aceipiänsie nach accipio, Bickel, Rh.M. 69, 418) „ein seltener Fisch mit rotem Fleisch, wahrsch. Stór* (Schrader RL. II? 485): ,spitzflossig*? acu-, s. äcer (Vanidek 5); penser unerklärt (: ahd. fasa, ags. fes, nhd. Faser, Bezzenberger GGA, 1874, 672, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. acipénser, p. 41]

In the wild

acipenser Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.11.p3
acipenser Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.17.p2

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. acipénser (scan p. 41; entry #87).

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