Alphinus

Alphīnus^[1]^[2] (a nomine Arabico الفيل al-fīl, a Persico پيل pīl, i.e. elephantus)^[3] erat in medio aevo miles in scaccorum ludo. Nunc in locum alphini denique nostra aetate sagittifer^[4] (sive curvus, calvus, senex, cornutus, comes, stultus, morio, sagittarius, cursor, episcopus) successit.

↑ Legitur etiam alfīnus, alficus et alphicus.
↑ Du Cange
↑ Vide J.D. Latham, 'Arabic into Medieval Latin', Journal of Semitic Studies, 17 (1972), p.47.
↑ Istum verbum ex carmine Vidae "Scacchia, ludus" sumptum est, quia non solum purae Latinitatis est, sed etiam primarum litterarum iterationes non creat. Praeterea Vida scaccis recentibus (scacchi alla rabbiosa) ludebat.

[1] Legitur etiam alfīnus, alficus et alphicus.

[2] Du Cange

[3] Vide J.D. Latham, 'Arabic into Medieval Latin', Journal of Semitic Studies, 17 (1972), p.47.

[4] Istum verbum ex carmine Vidae "Scacchia, ludus" sumptum est, quia non solum purae Latinitatis est, sed etiam primarum litterarum iterationes non creat. Praeterea Vida scaccis recentibus (scacchi alla rabbiosa) ludebat.

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