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τάρανδος

tarandos · ὁ

reindeer, elk, tarandrus

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What it meant — LSJ

reindeer, elk, tarandrus, parandrum

reindeer, or more prob. elk, Arist. Mir. 832b8, Fr. 371, Thphr. Fr. 172.1, Ael. NA 2.16; τάρανδρος is better attested in Ph. 1.384, and is v.l. in Arist. Mir. l.c.; so tarandrus in Plin. HN 8.123, 124 (parandrum in Solin. 25.30).

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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