The corpus record — Latin

catascopus

catascopus · m

a lookoutship

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Where it lives

De Bello Africo 1 · 0.77/10k

What it meant

cătascŏpus — Lewis & Short

cătascŏpus, i, m., = kata/skopos (exploring, spying (cătascŏpĭum, ii, n., katasko/pion,

Gell. 10, 25 fin.), =

I a lookoutship, a spy-ship, a vessel sent out to reconnoitre (pure Lat. navigium speculatorium), Auct. B. Afr. 26; cf. Isid. Orig. 19, 1, 18.

In the wild

catascopum Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Africo 26

Where it came from

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

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