The corpus record — Latin

barbus

barbus · m

a barbel

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What it meant

1. barbus — Lewis & Short

barbus, i, m.barba,

I a barbel, a river barbel: Cyprinus barbus, Linn., Aus. Mosell. 94 and 134 (cf. barbatulus mullus, Cic. Par. 5, 2, 38, and barbati mulli, id. Att. 2, 1, 7).

2. barbus — Walde–Hofmann

barbus, -i m. „Barbe, Flußbarbe* (seit Auson, rom., ebenso -ulus m. Cl): von den Bartfäden des Fisches benannt (vgl. die Beschreibung der Meerbarbe bei Plin. 9, 64), zu barba. Aus dem Lat. stammt ahd. barbo, nhd. Barbe. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. barbus, p. 128]

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.