1. zinzăla — Lewis & Short
zinzăla, ae, f.,
I a kind of gnat (rustic Lat.; cf. Span. zenzalo;
Ital. zanzara),Cassiod. in Psa. 104, 31.
The corpus record — Latin
zinzăla
zinzăla · f
a kind of gnat
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
What it meant
2. zinzala — Walde–Hofmann
zinzala, -ae f. ,Stechmücke" (Svennung Wtst. 145, Sabbadini ALMA, 3,88 (Cl. 19, 252): onomatopoetisch. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. zinzala, p. 1759]
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.