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aera

aera · f

counters

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Ars Amatoria 3 · 2.02/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Contra Symmachum 2 · 1.66/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
Silvae 3 · 1.2/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Aeneid 4 · 0.63/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.39/10k
Naturalis Historia 14 · 0.35/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

aera — Lewis & Short

aera, ae, f. [from aera,

I counters; v. aes, 2. E., later Lat.

I In math., a given number, according to which a reckoning or calculation is to be made, Vitruvius (Vetrubius) Rufus ap. Salmas. Exercc. I. p. 483.—

II Anitem of an account (for the class. aera, plur. of aes, Ruf. Fest. in Breviar. init. The passage of Lucil. cited by Non. 2, 42, aera perversa, is also prob. plur.).—

III An era or epoch from which time is reckoned, Isid. Orig. 5, 36; cf. Inscr. Orell. II. p. 374.

In the wild

aeraque Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 2.450
aëra Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.43.p2
aëra Vergil, Aeneid 9.699
aëra Vergil, Aeneid 6.202
aëra Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.23.p3
aëra Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.3.40

6 of 45 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. aera (scan p. 36; entry #231).

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