NOVUM LEXICON GRAECUM 1765 CHRISTIAN TOBIAS DAMM Pindar HOMER Greek LATIN

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Pages 50 and 51 of the catalog of Brünnich (1764) containing the first mention of the Danish common name “rovbille” for Staphylinus (top); page 27 of the catalog of Forster (1771) containing the first mention of the English common name “rove beetle” for Staphylinus.

#LiteratureNotice Hansen. On the Etymological Origin of “Rove Beetles” (Coleoptera: #Staphylinidae) doi.org/10.1649/0010... #Beetle #Beetles #Etymological #rovebeetles

although #etymological dates don’t go back far enough for any degree of certainly. Returning to #Karlsö, while the s looks like a #genitive and would not apply to an #adjective, the name was probably in use long before it was first recorded, and we should not forget that #names in #multilingual
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