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hinnus

hinnus · m

a mule

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What it meant

1. hinnus — Lewis & Short

hinnus, i, m., = i(/nnos,

I a mule (from a stallion and a she-ass; opp. mulus, from a he-ass and a mare): ex equa et asino fit mulus: contra ex equo et asina hinnus ... Hinnus est ex equo et asina, minor quam mulus corpore, etc., Varr. R. R. 2, 8, 1; 6; cf.: hinnos et hinnas sub quo sensu accipere debeamus Varro designat: ait enim ex equis et hinnulis (leg. asinabus) qui nascantur, hinnos vocari, Non. 122, 4 sq.; Col. 6, 37, 5.—

II Transf., in the form ginnus, i, m., = gi/nnos, a little stunted mule: non aliter monstratur Atlas cum compare ginno, Mart. 6, 77, 7; cf.: in plurium Graecorum est monumentis, cum equa muli coitu natum, quem vocaverint ginnum, id est parvum mulum, Plin. 8, 44, 69, § 174.

2. hinnus — Walde–Hofmann

hinnus, -? m. ,Maultier^ (ex equö et asinà; opp. mülus, Varro r. r. 2, 8, 6) (seit Varro, Demin, hinnulus seit Titin.): aus gr. Tvvog ds. mit À nach hinnire (Weise, Saalfeld; zur Et. s. unter asinus S. 73), Nbf. ginnus m. „kleines Maultier* (Plin.) aus unerklártem gr. yivvog ds. (Pellegrini St. it. fil. cl. 17, 387). — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. hinnus, p. 679]

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