The corpus record — Latin

bractea

bractea · f

a thin plate of metal

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Where it lives

Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
Naturalis Historia 12 · 0.3/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

bractĕa — Lewis & Short

bractĕa (also brattĕa), ae, f.perh. kindr. with bra/xw, to rattle,

I a thin plate of metal, gold-leaf (thicker plates of metal are called laminae; cf. Isid. Orig. 16, 18, 2: bractea dicitur tenuissima lamina): aranea bratteaque auri, * Lucr. 4, 729: leni crepitabat brattea vento, Verg. A. 6, 209: inspice, quam tenuis bractea ligna tegat, Ov. A. A. 3, 232; Mart. 8, 33, 6; Plin. 33, 3, 19, § 61; cf. argenteae, id. 37, 7, 31, § 105.—

B Poet.: viva, the golden fleece of Spanish sheep, Mart. 9, 62, 4.—

C Meton., thin layers of wood, veneers (opp. lamina): ligni, Plin. 16, 43, 84, § 232.—

II Trop., show, glitter: eloquentiae, Sol. praef. 2.

In the wild

bratteaque Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.727
Brattea Martial, Epigrammata 8.33.6
brattea Martial, Epigrammata 9.61.4
bratteasque Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.3.p1
bratteae Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 10.1083
bratteis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.7.p5

6 of 22 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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