The corpus record — Latin

bat

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Where it lives

Antoninus Caracallus 1 · 4.9/10k
De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
Epidicus 1 · 1.54/10k
Pseudolus 1 · 0.9/10k
De Inventione 2 · 0.6/10k
Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
Annales 2 · 0.23/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

1. băt — Lewis & Short

băt, a comic word formed to parody the

I conj. at: Ps. Potin aliam rem ut cures? Cali. At. Ps. Bat. Cali. Crucior, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 6 Lorenz ad loc.; cf.: at enim... bat enim, id. Ep. 1, 1, 86 (95).

2. băt — Lewis & Short

băt, sonus ex ore cornicinis lituum eximentis,

Charis. p. 213 P.

3. bat — Walde–Hofmann

bat (Plaut): scherzhafte Reimbildung zu at wie beia zu eia (Persa 212). Ottenjann C1. 3, 253 ff, Schwentner 28, Umgangsspr. 26. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. bat, p. 131]

In the wild

6 of 10 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. bat (scan p. 613; entry #10040).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. bat (scan p. 131; entry #375).

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