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sciurus

sciurus · m

a squirrel

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Where it lives

Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

1. scĭūrus — Lewis & Short

scĭūrus, i, m., = ski/ouros,

I a squirrel, Plin. 8, 38, 58, § 138; 11, 43, 99, § 245; Mart. 5, 37, 13.

2. sciürus — Walde–Hofmann

sciürus, - m. ,Eichhórnchen* (Plin.), Demin. scaríolus Gl. (aus *sejürjolus, Niedermann VRom. 5,183): aus gr. oxloupog ds. (oxid + oopá eigtl. „mit dem Schwanze Schatten machend"*). — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. sciürus, p. 1402]

In the wild

sciurus Martial, Epigrammata 5.37.13
sciuri Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.44
sciuri Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.8.p58
sciuri Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.38.p3

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. sciürus (scan p. 1402; entry #2485).

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