The corpus record — Latin

caupona

caupona · f

A female shopkeeper

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Where it lives

Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 1 · 3.77/10k
Epistulae 2 · 2.02/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 1 · 0.92/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.56/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

caupōna — Lewis & Short

caupōna, ae, f. (upon the form cf.

Prisc. p. 684 P.) [caupo].

I A female shopkeeper, huckster, a landlady, hostess (anteand post-class.), Lucil. ap. Prisc. l. l.; App. M. 1, p. 105, 23, p. 18 Bip.—

II A retail shop, an inn, tavern (syn. taberna), Cic. Pis. 22, 53; Hor. S. 1, 5, 51; id. Ep. 1, 11, 12; 1, 17, 8; Gell. 7, 11, 4; Plin. 9, 47, 71, § 154: cauponam exercere, to keep an inn, Just. 1, 7, 12.

In the wild

cauponas Horace, Satyrarum libri 1.5.51
cauponam Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1.7.p2
cauponae Tacitus, Annales 14.p15
caupona Horace, Epistulae 1.11.12
caupona Historia Augusta, Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 14
caupona Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 6.11.4

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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