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lanius

butcher

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Where it lives

Fabulae Aesopiae 3 · 2.74/10k
Satyricon 2 · 0.66/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 22 1 · 0.58/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

1. lanius — de Vaan

lanius 'butcher' [m. o] (PL+) Derivatives: laniarium 'butcher's shop' (Varro), laniena 'id/ (PL+), lanienus 'of a butcher' (Varro), laniare 'to wound savagely, cut up' (Quad.+); lonista 'trainer of gladiators' (Cic.+). Pit *lanio- 'breaker'. PIE *h3lomH-io-. IE cognates: Olr. rolaimethar, 'to dare' < *lamie/o- < *lmH-ie-, W. llafasu 'id.5, Co. lauosos 'to be allowed'; Gr. νωλεμές 'without pause' < *h3lem-?; Lith. … — [de Vaan, s.v. lanius, p. 340]

2. lănĭus — Lewis & Short

lănĭus, ĭi, m.1. lanio,

I a butcher (cf. macellarius): lanii, qui concinnant liberis orbas ovīs, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 39; id. Ps. 1, 2, 63: cetarii, lanii, coqui, Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 26; Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 6; cf. Cic. Off. 1, 42, 150: ab lanio cultro arrepto, Liv. 3, 48: cum de laniis aut vinariis ageretur, Suet. Claud. 40 init.; Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 11; Phaedr. 3, 4, 1.— Transf., an executioner (ante-class. and very rare): arcesse hostias, victimas, lanios, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 93 and 98.—Abusively, of a surgeon, Tert. de Anim. 10.

In the wild

laniones Petronius, Satyricon 39
lanium Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae 3.4.1
lanium Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.22.25.19
lanium Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae 3.15.14
lanius Martial, Epigrammata 7.61.9
lanium Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 22 p25

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. lanius (scan p. 340; entry #869). Root candidates: *lanio-, *lomio-, *lonio-.

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