The corpus record — Latin

cena

meal

Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited Latin corpus; none are written from memory.

Distribution

Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 17s 1 · 83.33/10k
Stichus 27 · 43.49/10k
Divus Titus 3 · 20.16/10k
Cimon 1 · 18.66/10k
Otho 2 · 12.68/10k
Vitellius 3 · 12.46/10k
Domitianus 4 · 11.62/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 6 · 10.36/10k
Epigrammata 54 · 9.59/10k
Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
C. Caligula 6 · 7.86/10k
Satyrarum libri 11 · 7.75/10k

Densest 12 of 114 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

Senses

1. cena — de Vaan

meal

2. cēna — Lewis & Short

the principal meal of the Romans in the early period

Attestations

cenam Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 16.8.9
cena Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 25.8.18
cena Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 26.1.1
cenam Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 26.3.5
cenarum Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 30.4.14
cenam Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 3.105

6 of 548 attestations shown.

Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) scan p. 120; entry #247 Review: Under source audit
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine scan p. 136; entry #2009 Review: Under source audit

The authorities' own wording is withheld pending review. Each source's identity, locator, and review status are cited above.

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