The corpus record — Latin

canna

canna · f

a reed

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Where it lives

de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 25 2 · 1.38/10k
Carmina 3 · 1.34/10k
De Re Coquinaria 2 · 1.28/10k
Metamorphoses 8 · 1.03/10k
Fasti 3 · 0.96/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 24 1 · 0.71/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Punica 5 · 0.66/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 9 1 · 0.62/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 26 1 · 0.59/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

canna — Lewis & Short

canna, ae, f., = ka/nna,

I a reed, cane (less freq. than harundo), Col. 7, 9, 7; 4, 32, 3: palustris, Ov. M. 4, 298: tremulae, id. ib. 6, 326 al.—

II Transf., any thing made of reed.

A A reed-pipe, flute, Ov. M. 2, 682; 11, 171; Sil. 7, 439.—

B A small vessel, gondola, Juv. 5, 89; cf. Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 21; 7, 56. 57, § 206.—

C Canna gutturis. in later medical writers, the windpipe, Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 16, 97; id. Tard. 2, 12, 137.

In the wild

Cannae Silius Italicus, Punica 10.30
Cannam Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 25 p12
cannis Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.894
cannae Ovid, Fasti 2.465
Cannae Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 9 p19
Cannae Claudian, de Bello Gothico 1.387

6 of 50 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. canna (scan p. 117; entry #1670).

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