aphye

Latin

Alternative forms

• apua

Etymology

Etymology tree

Ancient Greek ἀφύη (aphúē)bor.

Latin aphyē

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀφύη (aphúē).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.pʰy.eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.fi.e]

Noun

aphyē f (genitive aphyēs); first declension

1. small fry of fish, in particular, the anchovy
   • 77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, 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 (feminine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ē).

	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
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • >? 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