1. scărăbaeus — Lewis & Short
scărăbaeus, i, m., = skara/beiosska/rabos),
I a beetle, scarab, scarabee, Plin. 11, 28, 34, § 97; 30, 11, 30, § 99; Aus. Epigr. 70, 10.
The corpus record — Latin
scarabaeus
scarabaeus · m
a beetle
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Where it lives
- Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
- Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
- Naturalis Historia 20 · 0.5/10k
What it meant
2. scarabaeus — Walde–Hofmann
scarabaeus, -; m. „Käfer“ (seit Phaedr. rom. [*-aiu5]): — Lw. aus gr. küpafoc m. „Meerkrebs“ (Svennung Comp. Lucenses 18059), scarda — scaurus, 491 und zw. durch eine Art Kontamination oder Antizipation (Niedermann Ess. 89, vgl. curabrö Gl.: italien. scalabrone). scarda, -ae f. „ein Fich, wrschl. Meerwolf“ (Pol. Silv., rom.): Herkunft unklar, s. Thomas Rom. 35, 190 f, scardia, -ae f. ‘aristolochia’ (Ps. Apul): … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. scarabaeus, p. 1396]
In the wild
- scarabaeorum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.15.p2
- scarabaei Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.28.p2
- scarabaeos Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.11.p3
- scarabaeo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.4.p2
- scarabaei Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 29.6.p7
- scarabaeis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.11.p34
6 of 22 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. scarabaeus (scan p. 624; entry #10276).
- Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. scarabaeus (scan pp. 1396-1398; entry #2465). Root candidates: *sket-, *sked-.
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