The corpus record — Latin

caetra

caetra · f

a short Spanish shield

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Where it lives

De Vita Iulii Agricolae 1 · 1.48/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Pro L. Flacco 1 · 0.92/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 21 1 · 0.64/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 28 1 · 0.6/10k
Punica 4 · 0.52/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 1 · 0.13/10k
Ab urbe condita 2 · 0.04/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

1. caetra — Lewis & Short

caetra (better than cētra), ae, f.prob. Spanish,

I a short Spanish shield, Verg. A. 7, 732 Serv.; Liv. 21, 27, 5; 28, 5, 11; Plin. 11, 39, 93, § 227; Tac. Agr. 36; Suet, Calig 19; Luc. 7, 232; Sil. 3, 278; 3, 348 al.— Prov.: quis rotundam facere cetram nequeat? Varr. ap. Non. p. 82, 18.

2. caetra — Walde–Hofmann

caetra (-2-), ze f. „kleiner, leichter Lederschild der Spanier und Afrikaner, der pelta nicht unähnlich“ (seit Varro, rom. [sard. derda „Matte, Schleife“, Wagner WuS. Beih. 4, 71], -ätus „mit der caetra bewaffnet" seit Caes): Fremdwort; spez. kelt. Ursprung (Holder I 679£.) steht nicht fest; eher iberisch [Sofer Isid. 44. 164). — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. caetra, p. 167]

In the wild

caetra Suetonius, C. Caligula 19.2
cetrae Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 3.2.5
caetras Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.39.p1
caetras Silius Italicus, Punica 3.348
caetris Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 21 p27
caetra Vergil, Aeneid 7.732

6 of 14 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. caetra (scan p. 109; entry #1519).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. caetra (scan p. 167; entry #502).

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