The corpus record — Latin

era

the mistress of a house

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Where it lives

Cistellaria 8 · 15.3/10k
Truculentus 9 · 10.98/10k
Casina 7 · 9.01/10k
Amphitruo 4 · 4.07/10k
Stichus 2 · 3.22/10k
Carmina 4 · 3.11/10k
Phaedra 2 · 2.81/10k
Eunuchus 3 · 2.77/10k
Mercator 2 · 2.34/10k
Andria 2 · 2.03/10k
De Fato 1 · 2.02/10k
Phormio 2 · 1.84/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ĕra — Lewis & Short

ĕra (less correctly, hera; v. erus), ae (archaic

I gen. sing. ĕrāï, Aus. Idyll. 7, 5), f. erus.

I Prop., the mistress of a house, with respect to the servants; the mistress, lady: nunquam era errans (i. e. Medea), etc., Enn. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 22, 34 (Trag. v. 287 Vahl.): servus Dat (puellam) erae suae, Plaut. Cas. prol. 44 sq.; so id. ib. 2, 5, 3; 2, 8, 70; id. Am. 1, 1, 105; Ter. And. 4, 2, 4; id. Eun. 4, 3, 12; 5, 3, 8. So, era major and era minor, the old and young mistress, the lady of the house and her daughter, Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 22 and 23.—

II Meton., a mistress, female ruler or governor.

A Of goddesses: domina, era (Minerva), Enn. ap. Ach. Stat. ad Cat. 1, 9 (Vahl. Enn. p. 177, no. 22): Fortuna, era, Plaut. Merc. 3, 4, 12 dub.; cf.: vosne velit an me regnare era quidve ferat Fors, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 12, 38 (Ann. v. 203 Vahl.—for which, sit sane Fors domina campi, Cic. Pis. 2, 3): rapidi Tritonis era, i. e. Minerva, Cat. 64, 396: hilarate erae (i. e. Cybeles) citatis erroribus animum, id. 63, 18; so ib. 92: tergeminam tunc placat eram (Hecaten), Val. Fl. 1, 780: noctis eram Ditemque ciens, i. e. Proserpine, id. 7, 313.—

B Of sweethearts, Cat. 68, 136; so Ov. H. 9, 78.

In the wild

6 of 60 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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