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natrix

natrix · m

A water-snake

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Where it lives

C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Lucullus 1 · 0.56/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
De Inventione 1 · 0.3/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

1. nā^trix — Lewis & Short

nā^trix, īcis (once m.:

I natrix violator aquae, Luc. 9, 720; usually), f. no.

I A water-snake: cur deus tantam vim natricum viperarumque fecerit? Cic. Ac. 2, 38, 120.—

2 Trop., of a dangerous person: se natricem educare, Suet. Calig. 11.—

B Transf., a whip, scourge, made of a watersnake's skin: natibu' natricem impressit crassam et capitatam, Lucil. ap. Non. 65, 30.—

II A plant: Ononis natrix, Linn.; Plin. 27, 12, 83, § 107.

2. natrix — Walde–Hofmann

natrix, -ieis m. f. (wie anguis, serpens; kaum richtig Postgate Cl, Qu. 11, 172!) , Wasserschlange"; ,Penis* (Lucil, vgl. gr. öpig); „eine Pflanze* (Plın. 27, 107) (seit Lucil): aus *nair-ik-s = air. nathir, Gen. natrach „Schlange“, korn. nader ds., mbret. azr, nbret. aer ds. (Curtius 319, Pedersen I 134. 255 , kyımr. neidr, Pl. nadroedd ds. (*natri, Lohmann Genus 52. KZ. 60, 287), abret. natrol-ion „Basilisken* … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. natrix, p. 1053]

In the wild

Natrix Lucan, Pharsalia 9.720
natrix Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.27.p83
natricum Cicero, Lucullus 120
natrix Cicero, De Inventione 1.2
Natrix Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 27.12.p2
natricem Suetonius, C. Caligula 11.1

6 of 7 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. natrix (scan p. 455; entry #7320).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. natrix (scan p. 1053; entry #1830). Root candidates: *sna-.

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