The corpus record — Latin

agna

an ear of grain

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Where it lives

Epodon 3 · 9.98/10k
Elegiae 4 · 3.24/10k
Satyrarum libri 4 · 2.82/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
Gallieni Duo 1 · 2.72/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Fasti 6 · 1.92/10k
Saturae 4 · 1.61/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.5/10k
Ex Ponto 3 · 1.45/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. agna — de Vaan

agna 'an ear of grain' [f. a] (Paul, ex F: pennatas inpennatasque agnas) Magna represents *akna, Greek άχνη 'foam, froth; chaff (< *aksna-) and Go. ahana 'chaff can be connected: they might go back to a PIE derivative in *-n- of the root *h2ek- 'sharp' (cf. aceo and acu-\ On the other hand, the Greek is not a perfect formal match, and agna might equally well represent a loanword from a non-IE Mediterranean language. … — [de Vaan, s.v. agna, p. 43]

2. agna — Lewis & Short

agna, ae (

I abl. plur. agnabus, Hier. Retr. 2, 55, 1), f. agnus, a ewe lamb, Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 2; Vulg. Gen. 21, 28: humilis, Hor. C. 2, 17, 32: pulla, id. S. 1, 8, 27: muta, id. ib. 2, 3, 19: nitida, id. ib. 2, 3, 214: novella, Ov. P. 1, 118: pavens, id. M. 6, 527: tenera, Stat. Th. 8, 576.

3. agna — Lewis & Short

agna, ae, f.,

I a blade, a straw, Fest. s. v. pennatus, p. 211 Müull. [kindr. with 2. acus, q. v.; cf. Aufrecht in Zeitschr. für vergl. Sprachf. 1, p. 354].

4. agna — Walde–Hofmann

agna, -ae f. „Ähre“ (Carm. Sal., Paul. Fest. 211), aus *ac-na, s. äcer: apr. ackons ,Grannen*; got. ahana f. ,Spreu*, an. gm, ags. agnile — ago. 23 — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. agna, p. 54]

In the wild

6 of 51 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. agna (scan pp. 43-44; entry #19). Root candidates: *aksna-, *h2ek-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. agna (scan p. 39; entry #286).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. agna (scan pp. 54-55; entry #130).

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