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damma

damma · f

a fallow deer, buck, doe, antelope, chamois

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Where it lives

Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Phaedra 2 · 2.81/10k
Georgicon 3 · 2.12/10k
Gordiani Tres 1 · 1.8/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Epigrammata 6 · 1.07/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 1 · 0.89/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k

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

What it meant

1. damma — Lewis & Short

damma (dama), ae, f. (m.,

Verg. Ec. 8, 28; Georg. 3, 539; A. 8, 641; Stat. Ach. 2, 408; cf. Quint. 9, 3, 6) [R. dam-, v. domo], a general name for beasts of the deer kind;

I a fallow deer, buck, doe, antelope, chamois, Plin. 8, 53, 79, § 214; 11, 37, 45, § 124; Verg. G. 1, 308; 3, 410; Hor. Od. 1, 2, 12; Ov. M. 1, 442; 10, 539; 13, 832; id. F. 3, 646; Juv. 11, 121; Sen. Hippol. 62; Sid. Ep. 8, 6.—

II Transf., venison: nil damma sapit, Juv. 11, 121; Ov. M. 13, 832.

2. damma — Walde–Hofmann

damma (seltener düma), -ae f. (m. Verg. al) „Gemse, Rehkalb, Antilope, Gazelle* reds allgemeiner Ausdruck für Tiere aus dem Rehgeschlecht; seit Verg. und Hor., Cl. und rom. *dam(mjus; Demin. -ula [-ulus Gl] „Rehkälbchen* seit Apul; aus spütl dama ,Damhirsch* stammt ahd. tdm, mndl. däme, mit Umbildung ags. dd [daraus akorn. da ,dama*], aus irz. daim „Damhirsch“ bret. dem ds., Loth RC. 18, 97, Pedersen I 164, Schrader … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. damma, p. 353]

In the wild

dammis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.37.p3
dammae Vergil, Georgicon 3.539
dammas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.40.p3
damma Ovid, Fasti 3.646
dammis Seneca, De Beneficiis 2.29.1
dammae Horace, Carmina 1.2

6 of 34 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. damma (scan pp. 353-355; entry #879). Root candidates: *doma-, *domo-, *döu-.

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