The corpus record

μᾰρῖνος

marinos

chest

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What it meant

1. μαρῖνος · marinos — Beekes

μαρῖνος [m.] an unknown fish; perhaps a kind of barbel (Arist, H.), cf. Thompson 1947 s.v. H. glosses it κίθαρος ‘chest’, a kind of flatfish, ἰχθῦς θαλάσσιος ‘seafish’, καὶ ὄνομα κύριον ‘an ordinary name’. eETYM Formation like attay-ivos, etc. (see on » attaydac). The suffix -ivoc is PreGreek. — [Beekes, s.v. μαρῖνος, p. 957]

2. μαρῖνος · marinos — Chantraine

μαρῖνος : m. poisson mal identifié qui peut être un mulet (Arist.), cf. Thompson, Fishes s.u. Hsch. glose κίθαρος, ἰχθῦς θαλάσσιος, καὶ ὄνομα κύριον. Et.: Pas d'étymologie, même suffixe que dans &rræyivoc. — [Chantraine, s.v. μαρῖνος, p. 684]

3. μᾰρῖνος · marinos — LSJ

sea-fish

kind of sea-fish, dub. in Arist. HA 570a32; v.l. for μύρινος, ib. 602a1.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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