LOGOI

The corpus record — Latin

lĕpas

lĕpas · f

a kind of shell-fish that adheres closely to rocks, a limpet

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What it meant

lĕpas — Lewis & Short

lĕpas (lŏpas, ădis, f., = lepa/s,

Non. 551, 5),
I a kind of shell-fish that adheres closely to rocks, a limpet: lopades genus conchae marinae, Non. l. l.: lepadas (lopadas, acc. to Non.), ostreas, captamus, Plaut. Rud. 2, 1, 8; id. Cas. 2, 8, 57.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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