The corpus record — Latin

capra

capra · f

a she-goat

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Where it lives

Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
Mercator 9 · 10.51/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
De Anima 3 · 1.26/10k
Naturalis Historia 47 · 1.19/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 1 · 1.07/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
de Natura Deorum 3 · 0.84/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 35 1 · 0.79/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k

Densest 12 of 28 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

capra — Lewis & Short

capra, ae, f.caper,

I a she-goat, Cato ap. Charis. p. 79 P.; Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 1 sq.; Col. 7, 6 sq.; Plin. 8, 50, 76, § 200; Cic. Lael. 17, 62 al.: fera = caprea, Verg. A. 4, 152.—A nickname for a man with bristly hair, Suet. Calig. 50; cf. caper.—

II Transf.

A A star in the constellation Auriga (which is Amalthea, transf to heaven), Hor. C. 3, 7, 6; Cic. poët. N. D. 2, 43, 110.—

B The odor of the armpits (cf. ala and caper), Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 29.—

C A cognomen of the Annii, Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 10.—

D Caprae Palus, the place in Rome where Romulus disappeared in the Campus, where afterwards was the Circus Flaminius, Liv. 1, 16, 1 (in Ov. F. 2, 491, Caprea Palus; acc. to Fest. p. 49, also called Capralia).

In the wild

capras Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.126
capram Tertullian, De Anima 32
capra Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.50
capram Plautus, Mercator 2.1
capra Plautus, Mercator 2.1
Capra Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.110

6 of 89 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. capra (scan p. 121; entry #1750).

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