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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀφύη (aphúē).
Pronunciation
Noun
aphyē f (genitive aphyēs); first declension
- 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).
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