The corpus record — Latin

capella

capella · f

a she-goat

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Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 73.8/10k
Eclogues 10 · 22.04/10k
Lydia, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 18.76/10k
Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 15.41/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 4 · 15.31/10k
Ad Scapulam 1 · 6.7/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 4 · 3.65/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k

Densest 12 of 36 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. căpella — Lewis & Short

căpella, ae, f.dim.caper; cf.: puer, puella,

I a she-goat.

I Lit., Col. 7, 6, 4; Cat. 19, 16; 20, 10; Tib. 1, 1, 31; Verg. E. 7, 3; 10, 7; Hor. Epod. 16, 49; id. S. 1, 1, 110; id. Ep. 1, 7, 86; Ov. M. 13, 691 al.—A piece of statuary, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 35, § 87.—

2 As a term of reproach, a dirty fellow, Amm. 17, 12; 24, 8 (cf. canicula).—

II A star on the left shoulder of the constellation Auriga (usu. called capra), Plin. 18, 26, 66, § 248; rising in the rainy season; hence, sidus pluviale capellae, Ov. M. 3, 594: signum pluviale, id. F. 5, 113.

2. Căpella — Lewis & Short

Căpella. ae, m.,

I a Roman proper name.

I An elegiac poet, Ov. P. 4, 16, 36. —

II Capella Antistius, a teacher of rhetoric, Lampr. Comm. 1, 6.—

III Martianus Mineus Felix Capella, a learned grammarian of Madaura, in Africa, in the second half of the fifth century; his Satyricon treats of the liberal arts.—Hence, Căpel-lĭānus, a um, adj., belonging to a Capella, Mart. 11, 31, 17.

In the wild

capellis Horace, Carmina 1.17
capella Vergil, Eclogues 2.64
capella Juvenal, Saturae 1.5.155
capellas Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 6.970
capellae Vergil, Eclogues 1
capellis Martial, Epigrammata 6.19.9

6 of 80 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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