The corpus record — Latin

boiae

boiae · f

a collar for the neck

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Where it lives

Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k

What it meant

bŏiae — Lewis & Short

bŏiae, ārum, f.bos,

I a collar for the neck, kloio/s (orig. of leather; hence the name; but later of wood or iron), Fest. p. 29; Isid. Orig. 5, 27, 12: boia kloio/s, Gloss. Vet.: pedicae boiae, Plaut. As. 3, 2, 5: attrita boiis colla, Prud. Psych. praef. 34.—For boiam terere, v. Boii fin.

In the wild

boias Plautus, Asinaria 3.2

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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