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Latin
Etymology
Maybe from the same Proto-Indo-European root as Ancient Greek ὀρύα (orúa, “kind of sausage”).
Noun
arvīna f (genitive arvīnae); first declension
- fat, especially suet or lard
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “arvina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “arvina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- arvina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- arvina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “arvina”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray