1. τούρπαινα · tourpaina — Beekes
τούρπαινα [f] the fish ‘torpedo’ (Al. Trall., Paul. Aegin.).
2. τούρπαινα · tourpaina — Chantraine
τούρπαινα : f. «la torpille, poisson » (AI Trall., Paul Ægin.), τούπαινα (Cyran.), emprunt au lat. forpedé adapté au grec par le suff, -αινα, cf, μύραινα ; voir aussi Stromberg, Fischnamen 57. roûris : ὁ κόσσυφος (Hsch.). Obscur., — [Chantraine, s.v. τούρπαινα, p. 1146]
3. τούρπαινα · tourpaina — LSJ
torpedo
a fish, the torpedo, Alex.Trall. 12, Paul.Aeg. 3.78, 7.17; written τούπαινα, as Lat. for βατίς I, βάτος (B), Cyran. 104.
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