The corpus record — Latin

Elissa

Elissa · f

Dido

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Where it lives

Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
Ordo Urbium Nobilium 1 · 9.56/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Punica 9 · 1.18/10k
Fasti 3 · 0.96/10k
Silvae 2 · 0.8/10k
Epistulae 2 · 0.78/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Aeneid 3 · 0.47/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ĕlissa — Lewis & Short

ĕlissa or ĕlīsa, ae, f., = *)/elissa, another name (occurring only in poetry) for

I Dido, Verg. A. 4, 335; 610; 5, 3; Ov. Am. 2, 18, 31; id. F. 3, 553 al.—Hence,

II ĕlis-saeus (Elīsaeus), a, um, adj., poet. for Carthaginian: patres, Sil. 6, 346: tyrannus, i. e. Hannibal, id. 2, 239: lacerti, id. 15, 524.

In the wild

Elissae Silius Italicus, Punica 14.573
Elissa Ovid, Epistulae 7.193
Elissa Ausonius, Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 23.12
Elissa Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.40
Elissa Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 13.1.5
Elissa Ovid, Fasti 3.612

6 of 27 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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