1. tăbānus — Lewis & Short
tăbānus, i, m.,
I a gad-fly, horse-fly, oxfly, breese; called also asilus, Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 14; Plin. 11, 28, 34, § 100; 11, 33, 38, § 113; 30, 11, 30, § 101.
The corpus record — Latin
tabanus
tabanus · m
a gad-fly
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- Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k
What it meant
2. tabänus — Walde–Hofmann
tabänus, -; m, „Bremse, Viehbremse* (seit Varro, rom. neben mtl. tabö [im Suff. nach cräbrö, füro usw., Sofer Isid. 64. 172): Herkunft unklar, vl. Fremdw. Italien. tafano soll nach Meyer-Lübke Rom. Gr. I 42, Bertoni RFCI. 38, 34 aus einem osk.-umbr. Dialekt stammen, doch finden sich die -f-Formen gerade auf altem osk. Sprachgebiet nicht (Rohlfs ZRPh. 52, 491). Etr. Herkunft erwägt wegen der -f-Formen außer Ernout … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. tabänus, p. 1547]
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Where it came from
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. tabanus (scan p. 696; entry #11555).
- Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. tabänus (scan p. 1547; entry #2913).
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