The corpus record — Latin

Zancle

Zancle · f

an older name of the city of Messana

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant — Lewis & Short

Zanclē, ēs, f., = *za/gklh,

I an older name of the city of Messana (Messina), in Sicily, Ov. M. 14, 5; 15, 290; Sil. 1, 662.—Hence,

A Zanclaeus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Zancle, Zanclean: harena, i. e. Sicily, Ov. M. 13, 729.—

B Zanclēĭus, a, um, adj., of Zancle, Zanclean: moenia, i. e. Messana, Sil. 14, 48: saxa, Ov. M. 14, 47.

In the wild

Zancle Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.5.p1
Zancle Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.290
Zanclen Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.5
Zanclen Silius Italicus, Punica 1.662

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.