Figurative uses of animal names in Latin and their ... - mura di tutti
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TIGRIS, IN Persian, An Arrow ;<br />
<strong>in</strong> Lat., A Tiger.<br />
An <strong>in</strong>terest<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>stance <strong>of</strong> the opposite phenomenon, the<br />
name <strong>of</strong> a weapon giv<strong>in</strong>g rise to the name <strong>of</strong> an <strong>animal</strong>,<br />
is seen <strong>in</strong> the Lat<strong>in</strong> tigris. The word goes back ultimately,<br />
through the Greek riypi