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bowelfly · 7 months

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WAUGH

#bflyart #bug doodles #weevil #curculio #curculionidae #coleoptera

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onenicebugperday · 2 years

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Acorn weevil, Curculio glandium, Curculionidae

Photographed in Germany by peter839

#animals #insects #bugs #beetle #weevil #acorn weevil #nut weevil #Curculio #one nice bug #it's weevil time!!#get a load of that snoot

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celestialmacros · 7 months

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Weevil Wednesday!

Nut and Acorn Weevil (Curculio sp.)

September 28, 2023

Southeastern Pennsylvania

@cnestus Any guesses on species?

#bugs #bug #photographers on tumblr #bugblr #weevil #weevils #weevil wednesday #curculio #entomology #insects #insect #nature #animals #coleoptera

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rustedhills · 3 months

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Merobiba's Etymology: A Classical Discussion

The most likely place you've seen the word 'Merobiba' is Drawfee on Youtube - which has coined it as the name for a goofy little puppet-Merida from the hit film 'Bwave'.

Fig. 1: A screenshot from the original Drawfee video, posted Feb 2, 2023.

They pulled the word (among others) from the twitter account Weird Medieval, which posted this (Fig. 2) on Dec 6, 2022.

Fig. 2, the original 'merobiba' tweet, accessed via proxy

Weird Medieval sources the word (and others in the thread) to The dictionary of syr Thomas Eliot knyght, written 1490? - 1546, according to the University of Michigan Library [via the Early English Books Text Creation Partnership].

But where did syr Eliot acquire the word?

Fig. 3: the cover of Plautus' Curculio: Revised Edition, With Introduction and Notes by John Wright, which is what I'm currently using for class.

It was likely in a contemporary transcription of Plautus' Curculio, a Roman comedic play published around 200BCE. - Specifically act 1, line 77 (though different versions have slightly different numbering):

Transcribed from Plautus' Curculio: Revised Edition, With Introduction and Notes by John Wright:

77 - PH. nomen Leanaest, multibiba atque merobiba.

78 - PA. Quasi tu lagoenam dicas, ubi unium Chium

79 - solet esse. PH. quid opust uerbis? uinosissuma est;

The two characters - Phaedromus (PH), a young man madly in love, and Palinurus (PA), his sassy, unimpressed slave, are discussing an enslaved woman in the supporting cast (ancilla). Merobiba references her ability to drink very strong wines, and multibiba references the amount. As T. H. M. Gellar-Goad translates it in Plautus: Curculio: "she's a super-drinker and stupor-drinker" (pg. 10) [multibiba atque merobiba]. Phaedromus goes on to state uinosissuma est, which Gellar-Goad translates to "She's winetastic" (pg. 10). Phaedromus may not have game, but he has... a way with words...?

Gellar-Goad goes on to state that "Plautus has coined [multibiba and merobiba] by smashing together smaller, familiar words. ... Plautus' plays are chock-full of this sort of inventive, fast-and-loose wordplay, and it's a challenge for translators to keep up" (pg. 11).

Given Plautus' propensity for creating weird, cognate words for the sole purpose of sounding silly, it's highly likely that this is the truly first use of the word 'Merobiba'.

So, next time you hear "I'm merobiba!" and chuckle sensibly, remember:

You are keeping a 2200 year-old word alive. Thank you.

Note: If you've read to this point and think you've got an even earlier version--probably also in the colloquial/comedic Latin literature tradition--please rb with your findings!! And if I forgot a source pls lmk.

#classics #merobiba #drawfee #drawfee show #latin #ancient rome #plautus #curculio #literally just saw the word in my plautus homework and wrote this in a frenzy of academic passion #*nathan voice* is anyone... still watching...?#also deffo the weirdest collection of tags I've put on a post #if you did read the entire post. thanks for uh. looking at this thing with an intended audience of like two people max #please learn latin if you have the time. plautus is hilarious

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cnestus · 1 year

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*slide whistle*

#coleoptera #curculionidae #weevil #very belated weevil wednesday #dead bugs #Curculio

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arcticarthropod · 2 years

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Dalle weevil!

#Ai #Weevil #Coleoptera #Curculio #Dalle #dalle2

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ifelten · 2 years

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Agernsnudebille (Curculio venosus)

#Agernsnudebille #Curculio venosus #Curculio #Snudebille #Weevil #curculionidae #Bille #Beetle #Coleoptera #Insekt #Insect #Have #Garden #Topbjerg #Spring #Forår

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synalpheus · 1 year

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Curculio sp. - man, I love these little guys! Best nose in the universe!

Photos from 2021

#synsphotos #syns arthropod adventures #wildlife #wildlife photography #beetle #curculio #curculionidae #precious #they are tiny and common and i love them so much #look at the little king on his clover leave...

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adehl · 6 months

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weevil taking flight

#instagram #dradriansmith #bugs #weevils #beetles #curculionidae #curculio #upl #entomology #his whole account is so cool #insect flight is fascinating

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fhm1yuoiz · 1 year

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