1. caia — de Vaan
The corpus record — Latin
Caia
Caia
cudgel
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
What it meant
caia 'cudgel' (Isidorus), caiare 'to beat, thresh' (PL); ancaesa 'caelata' (Paul ex F.\ ancile [n.J 'small shield' (Enn.+), anclsus 'cut about' (Lucr.+); homicida 'murderer' (Cic.+), homicidium 'homicide' (VMax.+), pariclda/parricida [m,] 'murderder of a near relation' (PL+); occillare 'to smash up' (PL); incile [n.] 'channel, ditch' (Cato+), inctlis [adj.] 'id.' (Cato), incilare 'to revile, abuse' (Pac.+); … — [de Vaan, s.v. caia, p. 93]
2. Caia — Lewis & Short
Caia, v. Caius.
3. caia — Lewis & Short
caia, aecaio,
I a cudgel, acc. to Isid. Orig. 18, 7, 7.
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
Downloads
Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)
CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable
Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.