The corpus record — Latin

Edessa

Edessa · f

A city of Macedonia

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Where it lives

Antoninus Caracallus 2 · 9.79/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklürt von M. Weissenborn, book 45 2 · 1.52/10k
Res Gestae 5 · 0.39/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
Ab urbe condita 2 · 0.04/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

ĕdessa — Lewis & Short

ĕdessa, ae, f., = *)/edessa.

I A city of Macedonia, the burial-place of the kings, Liv. 45, 29; Just. 7, 1, 7.—Hence, Edes-saeus, a, um, adj., of Edessa: Antiphilus (dux), Liv. 42, 51.—

II A city of Mesopotamia, in the province of Osrhoëne, now Rhoa or Orfa, Plin. 5, 24, 21, § 86; Tac. A. 12, 12; Amm. 20, 11, 4; 21, 7, 7; and where Caracalla died, Aur. Vict. Epit. 21; Eutr. 8, 11. —Hence, Edessēnus, a, um, adj., of Edessa: sepulcra, Amm. 18, 7.

In the wild

Edessa Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklürt von M. Weissenborn, book 45 p28
Edessa Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.45.29.8
Edessam Historia Augusta, Antoninus Caracallus 7
Edessam Tacitus, Annales 12.p12
Edessam Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 21.13.1
Edessam Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 19.6.12

6 of 13 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.