ĕchĕnēis — Lewis & Short
ĕchĕnēis, ĭdis, f., = e)xenhi+/s,
I the sucking-fish, remora, Echeneis remora, Linn.; Plin. 9, 25, 41, § 79; 35, 1, 1, § 2 sq.; Luc. 6, 675; Ov. Hal. 99; Isid. 12, 6, 34.
The corpus record — Latin
echeneis
echeneis · f
the sucking-fish
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
- Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- echeneis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.9.p44
- echeneis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.25
- echeneis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.10.p13
- echeneis Lucan, Pharsalia 6.675
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.