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caprinus

caprinus · adj

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 95 · 2.4/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 11 · 1.4/10k
De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
De Medicina 7 · 0.68/10k
De Re Coquinaria 1 · 0.64/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 22 1 · 0.58/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

căprīnus — Lewis & Short

căprīnus, a, um, adj.caper,

I of or pertaining to goats: grex, Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 1; 2, 10, 3; Liv. 22, 10, 3: genus, Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 19: pecus, Col. 7, 6; 7, 7, 1: stercus, Cato, R. R. 36; Varr. R. R. 1, 38, 2: pellis, Cic. N. D. 1, 29, 82: lac, Plin. 28, 9, 33, § 124; 30, 11, 30, § 99: sanguis, id. 28, 17, 68, § 232.—Prov.: rixari de lanā caprinā, to contend about trifles, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 15.—

II Subst.: că-prīna, ae, f. (sc. caro), goat's flesh, Val. Imp. ap. Vop. Prob. 4.

In the wild

caprinum Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 7.12.12
caprinus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.15.p2
caprino Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.6.p1
caprini Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.11.p1
caprina Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.11.p3
caprini Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.14.p1

6 of 123 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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