The corpus record — Latin

hircinus

hircinus · adj

of a goat

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Where it lives

Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Naturalis Historia 18 · 0.45/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

hircīnus — Lewis & Short

hircīnus (hirquīnus), a, um, adj.hircus,

I of a goat, goat's: barba, Plaut. Ps. 4, 2, 12: sanguis, Plin. 20 prooem. § 2; 37, 4, 15, § 59: pelles, id. 12, 17, 40, § 81: folles, Hor. S. 1, 4, 19: sidus, i. e. the constellation Capricorn, Prud. Apoth. 621.—Comically: alae, that have a goatish smell, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 51.

In the wild

hircino Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.8.p7
hircini Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.18.p1
hircino Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.4.p2
hircino Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 6.12.2
hircinum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.16.p1
hircino Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.praef

6 of 23 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. hircinus (scan p. 439; entry #7062).

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