1. harpăga — Lewis & Short
harpăga, ae, f., = a(rpa/gh,
I a hook, for the usual harpago, Sisenn. ap. Non. 556, 20.
The corpus record — Latin
hárpaga
hárpaga · f
a hook
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Pseudolus 1 · 0.9/10k
What it meant
2. harpaga — Walde–Hofmann
harpaga, -ae f. „Haken“ (Sisenna): aus gr. äprdyn ds. (rom. harpax ds. aus gr. äpra£ (lat. nur „räuberisch“ Phn.]; davon Aarpago, -ónis ,Enterhaken* (seit Plt., rom.) und harpagö, -áre „rauben“ (Plt. ; vel. gr. &pmdZw „reiße weg, raube*, wovon harpastum n. „Fangball* Mart. — ápmaoróv). — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. harpaga, p. 666]
In the wild
- hárpaga Plautus, Pseudolus 1.2
Where it came from
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. harpaga (scan p. 313; entry #4927).
- Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. harpaga (scan p. 666; entry #1301).
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