The corpus record — Latin

basterna

basterna · f

a sedan chair

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Where it lives

Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.22/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

basterna — Lewis & Short

basterna, ae, f.,

I a sedan chair or litter, enclosed on all sides, and carried by mules, Pall. 7, 2, 3; Lampr. Elag. 21; Amm. 14, 6, 16; Hier. Ep. 22 ad Eustoch. n. 16; cf. Isid. Orig. 20, 12, 5.

In the wild

basternas Historia Augusta, Antoninus Heliogabalus 21
basterna Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 3.1
basternis Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.6.16
BASTERNIS Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.26.p4

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. basterna (scan p. 91; entry #1203).

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