The corpus record — Latin

hystrix

hystrix · f

a porcupine

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Where it lives

Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Naturalis Historia 7 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

hystrix — Lewis & Short

hystrix (histrix), ĭcis, f., = u(/stric,

I a porcupine, Plin. 8, 35, 53, § 125; Calp. Ecl. 6, 14; Claud. Idyll. 4.

In the wild

Hystrices Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.35
hystricis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.4.p1
hystricum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.14.p1
hystrice Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.30.p22
hystrix Claudian, Carminum minorum corpusculum 9.4
hystrice Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.8.p53

6 of 8 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. hystrix (scan p. 326; entry #5155).

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