title: Sylvia: Zur Entstehung des wissenschaftlichen Namens der Grasmücke (Arist. Hist. an. 592b22)
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metadata.value: Vorobyev, Grigory
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2019-01-17T10:50:46Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2019-01-17T10:50:46Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Grigory Vorobyev. Sylvia: Zur Entstehung des wissenschaftlichen Namens der Grasmücke (Arist. Hist. an. 592b22). Philologia Classica 2018, 13(2), 247–264.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu20.2018.206
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/15256
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article aims at demonstrating that the Latin bird name sylvia used by modern zoologists
  originates from the Greek ὕλας, attested in several manuscripts of Aristotle’s Historia animalium
  (592b22). Working on his Latin translation of this treatise in the 1450s–1470s, Theodore
  Gaza preferred the variant “πυρρὸς ὕλας” to other readings. He rendered πυρρός with
  a neologism rubicilla and ὕλας with the word silvia used only as a proper name before. As all
  the editions of the Greek text from the 1504 ed. princeps onwards take over Aldus Manutius’
  emendation πυρρούλας, the origin of silvia has not been ascertained until now, even though
  modern editions have “πυρρὸς ὕλας” in their apparatus. Gaza’s sixteenth-century readers considered
  silvia (later mostly spelled sylvia) a synonym of the nearby word rubecula, another
  neologism of his coinage, identified arbitrarily since the late fifteenth century with robin redbreast.
  That is why in 1769 Giovanni Antonio Scopoli used the word sylvia as the name for his
  newly introduced bird genus comprising robin redbreast. In 1800 Georges Cuvier suggested
  leaving only the typical warblers in that genus (“typical warblers” is a problematic name, since
  also whitethroats and other birds belong to the genus; the German Grasmücken is taxonomically
  more convenient), whereas other species, including robin redbreast, were moved to new
  genera. Thus, the word silvia coined as an equivalent for the Greek ὕλας (which was perhaps
  a scribal error) had been considered a name of robin redbreast for three centuries. Since 1800,
  spelled sylvia, it designates typical warblers.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: de
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 13; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: early modern zoological nomenclature
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Latin neologisms
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Aristotle’s Historia animalium
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: warblers
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: robins
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: sylvia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: silvia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: pyrrhula
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: erithacus
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: rubecula
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Sylvia: Zur Entstehung des wissenschaftlichen Namens der Grasmücke (Arist. Hist. an. 592b22)
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metadata.value: Article
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