The corpus record — Latin

cathedra

cathedra · f

a chair

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Where it lives

Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 8 · 30.44/10k
De Spectaculis 5 · 7.86/10k
De Monogamia 2 · 2.86/10k
De Oratione 1 · 2.23/10k
Saturae 5 · 2.01/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 2 · 1.58/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
Epigrammata 7 · 1.24/10k
De Clementia 1 · 1.2/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 1 · 1.2/10k
Peristephanon Liber 2 · 1.14/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

căthē^dra — Lewis & Short

căthē^dra, ae, f., = kaqe/dra,

I a chair, a stool, esp. one furnished with cushions and supports for women, an arm-chair.

I In gen., Hor. S. 1, 10, 91; Phaedr. 3, 8, 4; Prop. 4 (5), 5, 37; Juv. 6, 91 al.; also, a sedan chair, Juv 1, 65; 9, 52 Rup. al.; cf. Dict. of Antiq.—

II Esp., a teacher's or professor's chair, Juv. 7, 203; Mart. 1, 77 fin.—Hence,

B Meton., the office of teacher: usurpare, Aus. Prof. 10, 1; also, of a bishop: tenere, Sid. Ep. 7, 4.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. cathedra (scan p. 129; entry #1896).

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