The corpus record — Latin

echinus

echinus · m

a hedgehog

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Where it lives

De Re Coquinaria 10 · 6.38/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Satyrarum libri 3 · 2.11/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 32 1 · 0.94/10k
Apologia 2 · 0.93/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 33 1 · 0.87/10k
Rudens 1 · 0.84/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 34 1 · 0.67/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. ĕchīnus — Lewis & Short

ĕchīnus, i, m., = e)xi=nos,

I a hedgehog, urchin.

I Prop., usually the (edible) sea-urchin, Echinus esculentus, Linn.; Varr. L. L. 5, § 77 Müll.; Afran. ap. Non. 216, 11; Plin. 9, 31, 51, § 100 sq.; Hor. Epod. 5, 28; id. S. 2, 4, 33; 2, 8, 52; id. Ep. 1, 15, 23; Petr. 69, 7.—The land-urchin (otherwise called erinaceus), Claud. Idyll. 2, 17; cf. Isid. Orig. 12, 6, 57.—

II Transf., of things having a similar shape.

A A copper vessel for the table, perh. to wash out the cups in, a rinsing-bowl, Hor. S. 1, 6, 117, v. Heindorf, ad h. l.; id. ib. 2, 8, 52.—

B The prickly husk of a chestnut, Calp. Ecl. 2, 83; Pall. Insit. 155.—

C In archit., an ornament under the chapiter of a Doric or Ionic column, an echinus, Vitr. 4, 3, 4; 4, 7, 3; cf. Müller, Archaeol. § 277.

2. ĕchīnus — Lewis & Short

ĕchīnus or -os, i, f., = *)exi=nos.

I A city of Phthiotis, in Thessaly, Mel. 2, 3, 6; Plin. 4, 7, 14, § 28; Liv. 32, 33 al.—

II A city of Acarnania, Plin. 4, 1, 2, § 5.

In the wild

echinus Vitruvius, De Architectura 4.3.4
echinorum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.9.p7
echinos Pliny the Younger, Letters 1.15.3
echinorum Apuleius, Apologia 35
echini Apuleius, Apologia 39
echinorum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.10.p7

6 of 63 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. echinus (scan p. 215; entry #3327).

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