The corpus record — Latin

carina

carina · f

The keel of a ship

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Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 18.25/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 2 · 9.3/10k
Pharsalia 46 · 9.03/10k
Argonautica 22 · 5.92/10k
Achilleis 4 · 5.55/10k
Medea 3 · 5.3/10k
Ibis 2 · 5.09/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 5.05/10k
Elegiae 11 · 4.35/10k
Epistulae 11 · 4.3/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Octavia 2 · 3.82/10k

Densest 12 of 69 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. cărīna — Lewis & Short

cărīna, ae, f.cf. ka/ruon, cornu.

I The keel of a ship, Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 42; Caes. B. G. 3, 13; id. B. C. 1, 54; Liv. 22, 20, 2; 28, 8, 14; Tac. A. 2, 6; Curt. 7, 3, 9; 10, 1, 19; Ov. M. 14, 552; id. P. 4, 3, 5.—In the poets very freq. (in Ovid's Met. alone about thirty times).—

II Meton.

A (Pars pro toto.) A vessel, boat, ship, Enn. Ann. 379; 476; 560 Vahl.; Cat. 64, 10; 64, 250; Prop. 3 (4), 9, 35; Verg. G. 1, 303; 1, 360; 2, 445; id. A. 2, 23; 4, 398; 5, 158; Hor. C. 1, 4, 2; 1, 14, 7; id. Epod. 10, 20; Ov. M. 1, 134.—

B Transf., of objects of similar form; of the shells of nuts, Plin. 15, 22, 24, § 88; of the bodies of dogs, Nemes. Cyneg. 110 Wernsd.; cf. Schol. Stat. Th. 11, 512 and 2. carino.—

2 Esp. freq. as nom. propr.: Cărīnae, ārum, f., the Keels, a celebrated quarter in the fourth region of Rome, between the Cœlian and Esquiline Hills, now S. Pietro in vincoli, Varr. L. L. 5, § 46 sq.; Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 7; Liv. 26, 10, 1; Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 48; Suet. Gram. 15 al.; cf. Becker, Antiq. 1, p. 522 sq.: lautae, Verg. A. 8, 361 Serv.—Here stood also the house of Pompey, Suet. Tib. 15; id. Gram. 15; hence the humorous play upon the word carinae, ships' keels, Vell. 2, 77, 1; Aur. Vict. Vir. Ill. 84; cf. Dio. Cass. 48, 38, p. 555.

2. Cărīna — Lewis & Short

Cărīna, ae, f.,

I a town of Troas, Plin. 5, 32, 41, § 145.

3. Cărīna — Lewis & Short

Cărīna, ae, m.,

I a mountain in Crete, Plin. 21, 14, 46, § 79.

4. carina — Walde–Hofmann

carina, -ze f. „Nußschale, Schiffskiel (Müller-Craupa Phil. 73, 309f), Schiff* (seit Enn. und Plaut, rom.; dazu nach Varro und Serv. Carinae „Ürtlichkeit in Rom"): gr. xdpuov n. ,Nuf*, bes. „Walnuß* (Schrader RL. II* 631), kapóa f. „Nußbaum* (xapülvoc „von Nuß“, daraus caryinus Plin., carínus „nußbaumfarben® und carinärius ,Nufbaumfürber* Plaut); dazu vl. ai. karakah m. „Kokosnuß, daraus bereiteter Wasserkrug", … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. carina, p. 200]

In the wild

carinae Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.117
carina Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 6.318
carinam Lucan, Pharsalia 8.541
carina Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 60.19
carina Ovid, Tristia 1.11.6
carinis Lucan, Pharsalia 10.492

6 of 281 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. carina (scan p. 124; entry #1794).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. carina (scan p. 200; entry #571). Root candidates: *gar-.

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