ballistĭa — Lewis & Short
ballistĭa (balist-), ōrum, n.balli/cw, to dance,
I music or songs accompanying dancing, Vop. Aurel. 6, where an example of such dancing songs is given.
The corpus record — Latin
ballistia
ballistia · n
music
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Divus Aurelianus 1 · 1.28/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- ballistia Historia Augusta, Divus Aurelianus 6
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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.