The corpus record — Latin

rhinoceros

rhinoceros · m

a rhinoceros

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Where it lives

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Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
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Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
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Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
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What it meant

rhīnŏcĕros — Lewis & Short

rhīnŏcĕros, ōtis, m., = r(ino/kerws.

I Lit., a rhinoceros, Plin. 8, 20, 29, § 71; Mart. Spect. 9; 22; id. Epigr. 14, 53; 14, 52, 2; Curt. 8, 9, 16; 9, 1, 5; Suet. Aug. 43: cornua rhinocerotis, Vulg. Deut. 33, 17; Plin. 6, 29, 34, § 173.—

II Meton., a vessel made of the rhinoceros's horn, Juv. 7, 130.— A nickname for a man with a long nose, Lucil. ap. Non. 25, 30 (v. brochus).— Prov.: nasum rhinocerotis habere, i.e. to turn up the nose, to sneer at every thing, Mart. 1, 3, 6.— Hence, rhīnŏcĕrōtĭcus, a, um, adj., of a rhinoceros: naris, i.e. sneering, mockery, Sid. Carm. 9, 339.

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