The corpus record — Latin

scomber

scomber · m

a kind of tunny

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Where it lives

Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Captivi 1 · 1.16/10k
Epigrammata 5 · 0.89/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

1. scomber — Lewis & Short

scomber, bri, m., = sko/mbros,

I a kind of tunny, a mackerel: Scomber scomber, Linn.; Plin. 9, 15, 19, § 49; 31, 8, 43, § 94; 32, 11, 53, § 151; Col. 8, 17, 12; Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 71; Cat. 95, 8; Pers. 1, 43; Mart. 3, 50, 9; 4, 87, 8; 13, 102, 2.

2. scomber — Walde–Hofmann

scomber, -i m. ,Makrele*: Lw. aus gr. oxöußpog ds. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. scomber, p. 1403]

In the wild

scombri Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.15.p3
scombri Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.9.p21
scombro Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 31.8.p1
scombris Martial, Epigrammata 4.86.8
scombris Martial, Epigrammata 3.50.9
scombri Martial, Epigrammata 13.40.2

6 of 15 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. scomber (scan p. 628; entry #10350).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. scomber (scan p. 1403; entry #2494).

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