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filia

a daughter

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Where it lives

Cistellaria 23 · 43.98/10k
Carmina Omnia 1 · 39.06/10k
Didius Julianus 6 · 37.74/10k
Aulularia 25 · 36.2/10k
Epidicus 22 · 33.78/10k
Aristides 1 · 29.24/10k
Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 15 · 27.27/10k
Antoninus Pius 6 · 26.74/10k
Epicedion in Patrem 1 · 26.39/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 53 · 24.72/10k
Iphicrates 1 · 24.45/10k
De Regibus 1 · 22.57/10k

Densest 12 of 190 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

fīlĭa — Lewis & Short

fīlĭa, ae (

I gen. filiāi, Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 16 al.; dat. and abl. plur. filiabus, Cato ap. Prisc. p. 733 P.; Liv. 24, 26, 2; Sen. Q. N. 1, 17 fin.; Inscr. Grut. 750, 6; August. C. D. 3, 5; 15, 23; Dig. 30, 15, § 1; 40, 12, 3, § 2; cf. Plin. ap. Charis. p. 103 fin. P.; and filiis, Enn. ap. Prisc. l. l.; Plaut. Stich. 4, 1, 61; id. Poen. 5, 3, 9; Front. Strat. 4, 3, 5; Liv. 38, 57, 2 Drak.; Just. 7, 3, 3; Auct. B. Alex. 33, 2; Aur. Vict. Vir. Ill. 22), f. filius, a daughter: tua reconcilietur uxor, mea necetur filia, Enn. ap. Ruf. § 37 (Trag. v. 267 ed. Vahl.): Numae Pompilii nepos ex filia rex a populo est Ancus Marcius constitutus, Cic. Rep. 2, 18: o matre pulchra filia pulchrior, Hor. C. 1, 16, 1.—In apposition: cum Decimus quidam Verginius virginem filiam ... in foro sua manu interemisset, Cic. Rep. 2, 37: virgo, Ter. Ad. 3, 4, 20; Quint. 9, 2, 70: eam quae nobis adoptione filiae loco esse coeperit, Gai. Inst. 1, 59.—

A In partic.: filia familias, or, in one word, filiafamilias, v. familia. —

B Transf., female offspring, offshoot (poet.): Pontica pinus, Silvae filia nobilis, Hor. C. 1, 14, 12; Mart. 14, 90: filiae Picenae porcae, id. 13, 35: Massilia Graium filia, Paul. Nol. Carm. 21, 305.

In the wild

filiae Seneca the Elder, Suasoriae 6.22
filiai Plautus, Aulularia 2.4
filiam Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 2.2.10
filia Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 40 p52
filia Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.1.82
filia Tertullian, De Scorpiace 2

6 of 1,275 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. filia (scan p. 258; entry #4022).

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