Fromὄνος(ónos,“donkey, ass”) +‎-ῐ́σκος(-ĭ́skos). See also a similar equation of a fish and beetle inκάραβος(kárabos) andLatiniūlus fromἴουλος(íoulos). The meaning of woodlice arose by reason of the image of them being encountered bearing the weight of pitchers, which was alsoin outgoing antiquity translated byArabicحُمُر الأَرْض(ḥumur al-ʔarḍ, literally“earth-asses”).^[1] In contrast,Latinasellus(“asslet”) bearing the sense of “woodlouse” was only fabricated in the seventeenth century by Germans after their native Assel.^[2]

ὀνῐ́σκος• (onĭ́skos) m (genitiveὀνῐ́σκου);second declension

1. afish similar to acod
2. woodlouse

   Synonym:κουβαρίς(koubarís)

3. windlass,crane

   Synonym:ἐργάτης(ergátēs)

• Latin:oniscus

  → Translingual:Oniscus

• “ὀνίσκος”, inLiddell & Scott (1940),A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὀνίσκος inBailly, Anatole (1935),Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

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