The corpus record — Latin

xiphias

xiphias · m

A sword-fish

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

What it meant — Lewis & Short

xĭphĭas, ae, m., = cifi/as (swordshaped).

I A sword-fish: Xiphias gladius, Linn.; Plin. 32, 2, 6, § 15; Ov. Hal. 97. —

II A sword-shaped comet, Plin. 2, 25, 22, § 89.

In the wild

xiphias Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.11.p3
xiphian Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.2.p2
xiphias Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.25.p1
xiphian Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.11.p3

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.