The corpus record — Latin

Elea

Elea · f

a city of Lucania

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Where it lives

Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Thebais 5 · 0.8/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

ĕlĕa — Lewis & Short

ĕlĕa, ae, f., = *)ele/a,

I a city of Lucania, the birth-place of Parmenides and Zeno, the founders of the Eleatic philosophy, in Lat. also called Velia, Cic. N. D. 3, 33, 82.— Hence, Zeno Elĕātes, of Elea, Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, 52; and: Elĕātĭci philosophi, Eleatic, id. Ac. 2, 42, 129.

In the wild

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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