The corpus record — Latin

fuscina

fuscina · f

a three-pronged spear

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Where it lives

C. Caligula 2 · 2.62/10k
de Natura Deorum 2 · 0.56/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k

What it meant

1. fuscĭna — Lewis & Short

fuscĭna, ae, f.kindr. with furca,

I a three-pronged spear, a trident: dant (deo) arcum, sagittas, hastam, clipeum, fuscinam, fulmen, Cic. N. D. 1, 36, 101; as an attribute of Neptune, Suet. Calig. 52; as a weapon of the retiarii, id. ib. 30; Juv. 2, 143; Paul. Sent. 3, 6, 66.

2. fuscina — Walde–Hofmann

fuscina, -ae f. „Dreizack, Harpune“ (seit Plaut., rom.; fuseinula „kleine dreizackige Gabel“ Vulg): unerklärt; Vbdg. mit furca als *fure-sc-ina (Meringer ZóG. 54, 391, vgl. Solmsen X. 34, 29) erklärt die Stammbildung, die mit füstis (Ernout-Meillet 388) auch die Bed. und die Quantitätsdifferenz nicht. — Andere nicht befriedigende Deutungen bei Froehde BB. 1, 250 (zu fodiö oder zu g qdoravov ["spay-ax-avo-] „Schwert, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. fuscina, p. 605]

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. fuscina (scan p. 287; entry #4494).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. fuscina (scan p. 605; entry #1197).

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