Re: [tied] Re: Reindeer, etymology

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From: Daniel J. Milton

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Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 6:15 PM

Subject: [tied] Re: Reindeer, etymology

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao" <josimo70@......> wrote:
> The scientific name of reindeer is Rangifer tarandus. Does anybody
know the meaning of "tarandus"? Is Latin or some neologism created
by Linnaeus?
>
> Joao SL
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From L&S:
tarandos [a^], ho, a horned beast, native of Scythia,
reindeer, or more prob. elk, Arist.Mir.832b8, Fr.371,
Thphr.Fr.172.1, Ael.NA 2.16; tarandros is better attested in
Ph.1.384, and is v.l. in Arist. Mir.l.c.; so tarandrus in
Plin.HN8.123,124 (parandrum in Solin. 25.30).