aphye

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀφύη (aphúē).

Pronunciation

Noun

aphyē f (genitive aphyēs); first declension

  1. small fry of fish, in particular, the anchovy
    • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 31.44.97:
      vitium huius est allex atque inperfecta nec colata faex. coepit tamen et privatim ex inutili pisciculo minimoque confici. apuam nostri, aphyen Graeci vocant, quoniam is pisciculus e pluvia nascatur.
      • Translation by W. H. S. Jones
        Allex is sediment of garum, the dregs, neither whole nor strained. It has, however, also begun to be made separately from a tiny fish, otherwise of no use. The Romans call it apua, the Greeks aphye, because this tiny fish is bred out of rain.

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative aphyē aphyae
Genitive aphyēs aphyārum
Dative aphyae aphyīs
Accusative aphyēn aphyās
Ablative aphyē aphyīs
Vocative aphyē aphyae

Descendants

  • Vulgar Latin: *apiuva, *apiua
    • (perhaps) Ligurian: anciôa (see there for further descendants)

References

  • aphye”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • aphye”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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