The corpus record — Latin

cantharis

cantharis · f

A genus of beetle

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Where it lives

Stichus 2 · 3.22/10k
Pseudolus 3 · 2.71/10k
Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
Persa 2 · 2.54/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Menaechmi 1 · 1.05/10k
Mostellaria 1 · 1.04/10k
Metamorphoses 4 · 0.75/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Naturalis Historia 22 · 0.55/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
De Medicina 3 · 0.29/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

canthăris — Lewis & Short

canthăris, ĭdis, f., = kanqari/s.

I A genus of beetle, of several species; in pure Lat. scarabaeus parvus, Plin. 29, 4, 30, § 94; freq. used in medicine, id. 11, 35, 41, § 118; 29, 4, 30, § 93.—Esp. the (very poisonous) Spanish fly, cantharides: Meloe vesicatorius, Linn.; Cic. Tusc. 5, 40, 117; id. Fam. 9, 21, 3; Ov. Ib. 306; cf. Plin. 29, 4, 30, § 94; 11, 35, 41, § 118.—

II A worm injurious to the vine and rose, Pall. 1, 35, 6 and 4; cf. Plin. 18, 17, 44, § 152.

In the wild

cantharum Apuleius, Metamorphoses 9.10
Cantharidum Ovid, Ibis 308
Canthare Martial, Epigrammata 9.9.1
cantharides Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.13.p5
cantharide Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 29.6.p1
cantharidum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.29.p91

6 of 46 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. cantharis (scan p. 118; entry #1687).

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