Ze Slovníku středověké latiny: calopus

• Authors: Šedinová Hana

Title variants

EN

From the Dictionary of Medieval Latin in Czech Lands: calopus

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this article is to identify the origin and meaning of the Latin zoological term calopus in the works of Thomas of Cantimpré and Czech medieval lexicographer Bartholomaeus de Solencia dictus Claretus. The name and the description of an unidentified quadruped similar to ibex has the origin in an early Christian writing Physiologus, which was written between the 2nd and 4th century AD in Alexandria. In the Latin versions of this work, there are varieties of the name of this animal, such as autolops, autolopus, antelups and more, which resulted in the name “antelope” in modern languages and the deformed name calopus in the encyclopaedia of Thomas of Cantimpré and in the glossary of Claretus.

Keywords

EN

medieval Latin lexicography; ancient and medieval zoology; Physiologus; Thomas of Cantimpré; Bartholomaeus de Solencia dictus Claretus

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Listy filologické (Folia philologica)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 139
• Issue: 3-4
• Pages: 439-447

Contributors

author

Šedinová Hana

• Kabinet pro klasická studia FLÚ AV ČR, v. v. i., Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic