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σπατάγγης

spatagges

kind of sea urchin

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What it meant

1. σπατάγγης · spatangēs — Beekes

σπατάγγης, -ov ([m.] ‘kind of sea urchin’ (Sophr. 102, Ar. Fr. 409, Arist.). VAR πάταγγας [acc.pl.] ‘id.’ (Poll). Note also φατάγγης ‘pangolin’ (Ael.) (Fur: 1115, 164, 281; notin LSJ). *DER σπαταγγίζειν: ταράσσειν ‘to agitate’ (H.). *ETYM Unexplained. Hardly related to σπάω ‘to suck’ (cf. on σπατάλη). The variation shows that the word is Pre-Greek. — [Beekes, s.v. σπατάγγης, p. 1428]

2. σπατάγγης · spatangēs — Chantraine

σπατάγγης, ποὺ : m., sorte d'oursin (Sophr. 102, Ar. fr. 409 {où le mot est dit du sexe de la femme], Arist.) ; aussi acc. pl. πατάγγας (Poll. 6,47). d'où σπαταγγίζειν : ταράσσειν (Hsch.) le sens de ce dénominatif s’explique-t-il par les piquants de l’animal ? — [Chantraine, s.v. σπατάγγης, p. 1053]

3. σπατάγγης · spatangēs — Frisk

σπατάγγης, -ov m. “Art Seeigel’ (Sophr. 102, Ar. Fr. 409, Arist.); πάταγγας Akk. pl. “ds.” (Poll.). — Unerklärtes Fremdwort. Oder zu ondo "saugen? (vgl. zu σπατάλη)ϊ — Daven orarayyileıw‘ ταράσσειν H. — [Frisk, s.v. σπατάγγης, p. 1731]

4. σπατάγγης · spatangēs — LSJ

sea-urchin

a kind of sea-urchin, Sophr. 102, Ar. Fr. 409, Arist. HA 530b4; πάταγγας acc. pl., Poll. 6.47 (v.l. πάταγα, παταγας).

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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