1. em — Lewis & Short
em, i. q. eum, v. is
I init.
The corpus record — Latin
em
em
init
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Where it lives
- Poenulus 13 · 11.79/10k
- Asinaria 9 · 11.14/10k
- Curculio 6 · 9.73/10k
- Mercator 8 · 9.34/10k
- Captivi 8 · 9.24/10k
- Trinummus 9 · 9.15/10k
- Pseudolus 10 · 9.04/10k
- Bacchides 8 · 8.11/10k
- Epidicus 5 · 7.68/10k
- Truculentus 6 · 7.32/10k
- Casina 5 · 6.44/10k
- Mostellaria 6 · 6.24/10k
Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. em — Lewis & Short
em, interj., = hem,
Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 4; Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 5; 1, 56.3. em — Lewis & Short
em, interj., = en (freq. in Plaut. and Ter. in best MSS.),
Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 42; id. Bacch. 4, 8, 29; id. Trin. prol. 3 (v. Brix ad loc.); id. ib. 1, 2, 148; id. Most. 5, 2, 58; id. Men. 2, 1, 26; id. Am. 2, 2, 146 Ussing ad loc.; Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 6 al., v. en.In the wild
- em Plautus, Truculentus 4.3
- em Apuleius, Metamorphoses 3.17.p2
- Em Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 15.13.3
- Em Plautus, Bacchides 4.9
- Em Plautus, Poenulus 1.1
- Em Plautus, Truculentus 2.4
6 of 130 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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