The corpus record — Latin

Acca

Acca · f

the wife of the shepherd Faustulus

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 6 · 0.85/10k
Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k
Aeneid 3 · 0.47/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Noctes Atticae 4 · 0.36/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Acca — Lewis & Short

Acca, ae, f.cf. Sct. accā = mater, and the Gr. *)akkw/ = mater Cereris.

I Lā-rentĭa, the wife of the shepherd Faustulus, who nursed and brought up the twins Romulus and Remus; mother of the twelve Arvales Fratres, Varr. L. L. 6, 23; Gell. 6, 7. In her honor the Romans celebrated in December a feast called Lārentālĭa, or Accālĭa (v. Larentia).—

II A companion of Camilla, Verg. A. 11, 820.

In the wild

6 of 19 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. acca (scan p. 570; entry #9370).

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.