The corpus record — Latin

scarus

scarus · m

scar

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Where it lives

Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Satyricon 2 · 0.66/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

scărus — Lewis & Short

scărus (scārus, Enn. ap. i, m., = ska/ros,

App. Mag. p. 299),

I scar, a kind of seafish much esteemed by the Romans; acc. to some, a species of wrasse: Labrus scarus, Linn.; Plin. 9, 17, 29, § 62; Ov. Hal. 9; 119; Col. 8, 16, 1 and 9; Enn. l. l.; Hor. S. 2, 2, 22; id. Epod. 2, 50; Mart. 13, 84; Fest. s. v. pollucere, p. 253: scarorum jocinora, Suet. Vit. 13.

In the wild

scarorum Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 8.17.12
scarus Horace, Satyrarum libri 2.2.22
scarus Petronius, Satyricon 93
scarorum Suetonius, Vitellius 13.2
scarus Martial, Epigrammata 13.84.1
scarus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.2.p1

6 of 11 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. scarus (scan p. 624; entry #10282).

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